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a hundred set in an orchard,' I would have 

 at least twenty-five ; and were I to raise 

 apples entirely for feeding out, as well as 

 for domestic use, I would have two-thirds 

 sweet, and for this reason : They are worth 

 as much as potatoes for hogs, sheep, cattle 

 and horses, and as easily raised ; and as 

 the potato crop is cut short by the rot, it 

 makes it far more important that sweet ap- 

 ples should be estimated as a substitute. 

 Let every permanent fence on the farm and 

 road side be lined with productive sweet 

 apple trees, and even then [until orchards 

 are abundant,] it will be, as a friend of 

 mine once said, who had 120 sweet apple 

 trees of one variety. 1 said to him, — why 

 do you have so many trees of a kind ? 

 ' They are my Hog Sweetings ; and I set 

 them on purpose to feed my hogs.' I said, 

 — well, how do your hogs like them ? ' Do 

 not know; they have never got any of 

 them. yet, and I am afraid they never will.' 



" Pears, I have not cultivated so exten- 

 sively, having tried only about twenty va- 

 rieties of a more southern clime ; a part of 

 which, together with a few choice northern 

 varieties, I have cultivated with good suc- 

 cess. 



"Three best — Bloodgood, Udal, Doy- 

 enne, or Old St. Michael. 



" Six best — Bloodgood, Udal's Seedling, 

 Udal, Sweet Bell, St. Michael, and Winter 

 Nelis. 



" Twelve best— Bloodgood, Udal's Seed- 

 ling, Dearborn's Seedling, Sweet Bell, Buf- 

 fum, St. Michael, Louise Bonne de Jersey, 

 Fulton, Vicar of Winkfield, Prince's St. 

 Germain, and Winter Nelis. 



" Plums. I have cultivated over fifty va- 

 rieties of the plum, mostly on the wild or 

 Canada plum stock, which makes the hardi- 

 est and most productive tree for this cli- 

 mate ; and when grafted or budded close 

 to the ground, grows large and handsome. 



Most varieties of the plum have succeeded 

 perfectly well here, and large crops were 

 raised the past season. Three best — Early 

 Orleans, Prince's Imperial Gage, and Pur- 

 ple Gage. 



" Six best — Early Orleans, Duane's Pur- 

 ple, Blue Dwarf Gage, Green Gage, Lom- 

 bard, and Black Damson. 



" Twelve best — Royal Native, Duane's 

 Purple, Washington, Smith's Orleans, Blue 

 Dwarf Gage, Imperial Gage, Green Gage, 

 Purple Gage, Columbia, Jeff'erson, Orange, 

 Lombard, and Black Darnson. 



" Cherries. The Kentish or Pie Cherry, 

 (called here the Tame, in distinction to the 

 wild cherry,) is the main cherry in this re- 

 gion, and by far the most hardy and pro- 

 ductive ; it produces the same from seed, 

 and is nearly as good for us as any of the 

 Heart, Bigarreau, or Duke Cherries, that can 

 be raised here. I have tried some dozen 

 varieties, and find the Black Heart, Black 

 Tartarian, H3'de's Native, Downer's Late, 

 May Duke, &c., succeed tolerably well. 

 Still, we do not get a crop of fruit oftener 

 than once in three or four years. The 

 others make a rapid growth, and set full for 

 fruit; but the buds are spoiled by the se- 

 verity of the winter, or a late frost in the 

 spring. 



" Gooseberries and currants, I have not, 

 as yet, cultivated extensively ; but they are 

 all perfectly hardy. I have some of the 

 Red, Green and White English Gooseber- 

 ries, and a few valuable varieties selected 

 from our swamps. 



" I have the large Red and White Dutch, 

 and the Black Currants. 



" The White Dutch succeeds well, and 

 in some respects is preferable to the Red. 



"Grapes are raised in this region, in fa- 

 vorable locations, with open culture. The 

 Isabella, and White Sweet Water, have 

 been as much cultivated as any varieties, 



