bb ORCHARDS. 



he seems to believe the inextinguishable powers of nature, to 

 make roots and branches under any circumstances. It is true 

 that the terms differ somewhat from the nature of the culture 

 and the greater preparation necessary in planting fruit trees 

 in England, but this is not by any means sufficient to justify 

 the different modes of performing the same operation there 

 and here. 



" In truth, in this country, where the sun and climate are 

 so favorable, where pruning and training are comparatively 

 so little necessary, the great requisite to success in the ordi- 

 nary culture of fruit trees is the proper preparation of the 

 soil before a tree is planted. Whether a transplanted tree 

 shall struggle several years to recover, or grow moderately 

 after a short time, or at once start into a very luxuriant and 

 vigorous growth, depends entirely upon the amount of care 

 and labor the planter is willing to bestow on the soil for his 

 trees. We have seen several instances where, side by side, 

 one man planted his trees in large spaces of deeply moved 

 and rich soil, and another in small holes in the common mode, 

 which uniformly showed the trees of the first larger after 

 five years, than those of the last, after twelve." 



AVe have written and quoted enough to satisfy the intelli- 

 gent planter that the great desideratum in the art of trans- 

 planting, is THOROUGH PREPARATION OF THE SOIL ; that is 



the foundation of all after work, and the main source of all 

 subsequent free-growth and thrift in the young plant. The 

 tree thus placed in the most favorable situation, luxuriates in 

 the mellow soil, and grows off at once freely and vigorously 

 spreading its verdant branches, supported by a stem, smooth, 

 elastic, and green as the young hickory. 



MANURE FOR TREES. 



The hog-mud from ditches, leaves, trash, soil from fence 

 corners, &c., should be collected and mixed with animal 

 manures to form a compost the most valuable for trees of 

 almost every description. The muck, or mud, should be thrown 

 out during the dry weather of summer or fall, and should be 



