NOTES ON STEAWBEEEIES. 



the trees shade the ground so much that it will not be profitable for hoed crops 

 or grain. As to the distance apart the trees should stand, it will depend something 

 on the trees planted. My observation tells me that, as a general thing, apple orchards 

 are set too close on the ground. The trees should be set at such distance apart that 

 the trunks will grow to at least eighteen inches in diameter before the branches 

 approach each other. Some six or seven years ago I set out a young orchard of 

 Balduuns at a distance of forty feet one Avay by thirty the other, and when the 

 trunks reach the size of a foot and a half, I think that the ground will be nearly cov- 

 ered. An orchard of Rhode Island Greenings should be set at least forty feet each 

 way, as this tree opens more like the umbrella in shape ; the branches extending out 

 horizontally from the trunt, it covers a large surface. There is nothing to be gained 

 by crowding trees so that the branches will come together when the trees are eight or 

 ten inches in diameter at the trunk ; but much is lost in this way. The trees should 

 have room to extend their branches, should the orchard live and thrive for an age or 

 century to come. The quality of fruit is much better, also, when the trees have plenty 

 of room and sun-light to mature the fruit. 



One word as to the over-supply of good fruit for market, which some cultivators 

 seem to apprehend from the great attention given to this business. I have no idea 

 that the supply will equal or exceed the demand for good fruit in this country in the 

 next fifty years to come. Of course, prices will vary according to the amount of fruit 

 grown in a season, and other circumstances connected with the business ; but good 

 fruit of all kinds will always bring a remunerating price to the careful and patient cul- 

 tivator ; and then we look for the cultivation of hardy kinds of apples for the " foreign 

 trade," to become a business hereafter of which we know but little at present. Some- 

 thing has been done in this way already ; but that a great deal more will be done in 

 the next half century, and that, too, at a large profit, we have no reason to doubt at 

 present. Farmers and cultivators will continue to make all the improvements they 

 can, both in their a|)ple and other fruit orchards. 



NOTES ON STRAWBERRIES FOR 1853. 



BY E. G. PAEDEE, GENEVA, N. T. 



Crescent Seedling. — This new variety from New Orleans has, in my garden — this 

 its first season of bearing north — proved a perfect failure. The plants are very strong 

 and vigorous ; the blossoms large and distinctly staminate ; the berry of rather light 

 color, nearly round, of rich, high flavor when ripe, but a moderate bearer, and 

 no appearance, thus far this season, of prolonging the season of strawberries north, 

 as it has ceased bearing. 



Mc Alloy's Superior. — We had large expectations of this new variety, and have not 

 been disappointed. It has this season been superior to any of the fifty varieties 

 bearing on my grounds, and besides, I have seen it in bearing in several other ga 



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