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loaded with fruit, will bend and refi: on the grodnd in 

 every direftion for many years, all of them being rooted 

 as if they had been planted, their ftocks remairiing tough 

 and their bark fmooth for twenty years and upwards. If 

 any of the fprouts from the old flump fnould happen to 

 fplit oft' and die, cut them away, they wl:i be fupplled 

 from the ground by others, fo that you may have trees 

 from the fame for lOO years as 1 believe. 1 have now 

 trees from one to thirty-fix years old, all from the fame 

 flump. Young trees formed in this manner will bear 

 fruit the fecond year, but this fruir will not ripen fo 

 early as the fruit on the older trees from the fame Hump. 

 Three years after the trees are cut off, the Ihoots will be 

 fufhciently large and buihy to fliade the ground fo as to 

 prevent the growth of grafs that might injure the trees, 

 therefore plowing will be ufelefs and may be injurious 

 by wounding them. It is alfo unneceffary to mamne 

 peach trees, as the fruit of manured trees is always fmaller 

 and inferior to that of trees which are not manured. 

 13y manuring you make the peach trees larger and ap- 

 parently more flouriihing, but their fruit will be of a 

 batl kind, looking as green as the leaves, even when 

 ripe, and later than that of trees which have not been 

 manured, i'each trees never require a rich foil, the 

 poorer the foil the better the fruit : a middling foil pro- 

 duces the mofl; bountiful crop. The highell ground is 

 the belt for peach trees, and the north fide of hills is 

 mod: defirable, as it retards vegetation and prevenf":. the 

 deflrudive efieds of late frofts, which occur in tj,^ -month 

 of April in Fennfylvania. Convinced by lonty experience 

 of the truth of thefe obfervations, the aut^ jr wifhes they 

 may be publilhed for public benefit, and has been in- 

 formed that Colonel Luther Martin and another gentle- 

 man, in the lower part of Maryland, have adopted a 

 fimilar plan with great ad"-^^*-""- 



