PEOPAGATION AND CULTURE OF TREES. 



ing to my observation, jjervade the whole soil, however deep. In burying the flies I 

 have caught recently among my corn, planted June 7th, I find the ground already full 

 of roots to the depth of over a foot. True my soil is of unusual depth, as I have it 

 carefully dug and thoroughly worked from two feet to thirty inches deep throughout. 

 I find that the roots of my vegetables and plants avail themselves of its whole depth 

 before they arrive at maturity. 



[We are glad to see observing men in all parts of the country turning their 

 attention to a study of the habits of insects, and the best methods of repelling 

 their attacks upon vegetation. It is a fact that every year we are called upon to note 

 the arrival of some new enemy to the products of our orchards and gardens, and tbe 

 cultivator who fails to make himself acquainted with them, and the most successful 

 modes of resisting and destroying them, will find himself as utterly helpless as would 

 a mariner in the trackless ocean without a comj^ass. 



We thank Mr. Robinson for the account he has given us of his labors. We have 

 seen the same mode of traj^ping successfully pursued by others, and are satisfied that 

 every individual might do much in their way to relieve their premises from such 

 annoying pests. In this connection we cannot urge too strongly the necessity of the 

 prompt and complete destruction of every fallen fruit. Not a single specimen should 

 be left on the ground over night. Children can do this work as well as men, and it 

 will aid very materially, as we know by experience, in diminishing the number of 

 insect depredators. — Ed.] 



PROPAGATION AND CULTURE OF TREES — THE WAY I DO. 



BY E. IsICnOLS, WOLF-PEX SPEIXG, NEAR WALHONDIXG, OHIO. 



I HAVE derived great pleasure and profit from the perusal of the writings of those 

 engaged, as I am, in growing fruit trees, whether for sale or in the orchard. Nor has 

 anything that I have seen appeared more practical and useful than your Fruit Gar- 

 den. Still there are many things which I do not do just as I understand others to do 

 in similar cases, and I have supposed it might aftbrd at least some amusement, for me 

 to state briefly the leading points in which my practice differs from that of most or all 

 others. Of course no one will adopt these stranr/e notions imless upon the conviction 

 of his own judgment, and I must candidly admit that they have not had those years 

 of trial which the cautious cultivator can rely on. They were not practiced by my 

 great grandfather, my grandfather, nor even my own progenitor. I can only say they 

 seem to do well with me. 



I grow no trees in my nursery for sale. I plant them all. I have no confidence in 

 what is called the whole root seedling stock theory. All thrifty growing trees I prefer, 

 decidedly, upon their own roots. This, in the apple, I accomplish principally by com- (^ 

 mon root grafting and setting the trees well in the ground, by which the grafts gener- \> 



