1883. 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



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General Orchard. — With a capital of $10,000, 

 an orchard of forty acres can be planted and 

 cared for until it is bearing enough to take care of 

 itself. The best arrangement of such an orchard 

 would be ten acres in oranges, ten acres in olives, 

 eight acres in grapes for raisins, five acres in 

 grapes for wine, five acres in apricots and two 

 acres for house, barn and garden. The profits of 

 such an orchard for five years would be as follows: 



COST OF DKCHAKIJ. 



40 acres of land S^ 4,000 



Buildings, fences, Ac, 2 acres 1,975 



1.000 orange trees, 6 vear-old budded, 10 '■ "50 



1,000 olive trees, fi^ 7oe., 10 " 7.50 



4,000 grape vines, for raisins. 2 vear. S " 4i)0 



6,000 ■' •• •' wine, " 5 " tiOO 



.500 apricots (?/ ■25c.. 5 " 125 



Planting and cultivating, first year, S20 per acre S'X) 



Cultivating, second year. ^\'-> \wx acre 600 



Capital $10,000 



NKT llECEIPTS. 



Second year, from grapes for raisins S 400 



From grapes for wine 250 



Profit 7}'2 '^ or 3-'4 •' per year fi-50 



Third year, from grapes for raisins :J1,100 



From grapes for win .■. .500 



" oranges 500 



" olives '. 500 



" apricots " 250 



Profit 28 s, or 12 ;. pei year 2.S.50 



Fourth year, from grajjes for raisins §1,-150 



From grapes for wine 750 



" oranges 1,000 



" olives 1.000 



' ' apricots 500 



Profit 47 ., or 20 < per year 4.700 



Fifth year, from grapes for raisins sl.SOO 



From "grapes for wine 1.000 



" oranges 5.000 



'• olives 5.0()0 



" apricots 2,500 



Pr<»fits 15.3 '., or 15,300 



Total receii)ts, profit 2.'{5 v, or 47 <; per year ■>23,500 



As a general rule it would be better to divide 

 an orchard of the above kind, and raise the 

 oranges and grapes in the interior, and olives and 

 apricots near the seacoast. 



EARLY PEACHES UNSATISFACTORY. 

 BV J. M., PHILADELPHIA. 



I am the owner of a small assortment of fruit 

 trees, some peach trees among the rest, and I wish 

 to relate how disappointed I have been with such 

 early sorts as Alexander, for instance. 1 have a 

 tree of this sort which is and has been a model of 

 good health and of a shapely tree, and of which 1 

 had expected great things in the way of fruit. The 

 first year of flowering it set about a dozen fruit, and 

 of this number ripened about the half, the rest 

 were stung, and dropped off at different times be- 

 fore ripening. The second year was a repetition 



of the first, only on a larger scale, a lesser propor- 

 tion remaining on to ripen than before. I had later 

 ripening sorts that were doing better than this, and 

 making up my mind that the earliest peaches were 

 not the ones for me, I budded my Alexander with 

 four good later sorts, viz.. Stump the World, Moun- 

 tain Rose, Oldmixon and Smock Late. However, 

 I did not utterly condemn it, but left the centre 

 limb untouched, thinking if it did well this season 

 it should remain. But again the results are to be 

 as before. The fruit set well, but at this writing, 

 June 26th, nearly all the fruit have dropped from 

 the stings of insects. I shall cut out the last limb 

 of the early kind and let the four named as bud- 

 ded on it take the lead next year. I shall do this 

 because my later sorts, such as Crawford's Early 

 and Susquehanna do not suffer to near the extent 

 the Alexander does. 



HELLEBORE FOR DESTROYING INSECTS. 

 F.Y G. GEDULDIG, NORWICH, CONN. 



In the May number "Reader," Berwyn, Fa., asks 

 if hellebore is not dangerous to use on cabbages. 

 In answer to that I say no; it gets only on the 

 outer leaves and the next rain washes it off. I have 

 used it for over eight years and have never found 

 any harm from it. It is not necessary to use enough 

 of it to hurt any one. It is sometimes used dry on 

 currant bushes, and in larger quantities than on 

 cabbage. Is there any record of any one ever 

 having been poisoned from eating currants after- 

 wards ? I kill any caterpillar with it on roses, or- 

 anges, etc. I believe it is the only remedy for cot- 

 ton \yorms. On roses I have used it when they 

 were in flower, when necessary, without spoiling 

 the flowers. Thirty gallons of water to one pound 

 of hellebore is about right. Everybody maybe as- 

 sured that no danger to them or those who eat the 

 cabbage would come from the use of hellebore. 



[Probably hellebore, used in the liquid form ad- 

 vised by our correspondent, would injure no one, 

 but poisons on vegetables should be used with cau- 

 tion.— Ed. G. M.] 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



An Economical Insecticide. — I am using at 

 the present time a decoction for the destruction of 

 green and black aphides, thrips, and mealy bug on 

 vines, which I find answers the end in view capi- 

 tally, costs really nothing, and is within the power 

 of anyone with a garden to manufacture at home. 

 I bruise with a mallet 40 lbs. of common laurel 



