On Peach Trees. 18 
great crop every year since, which increases with their 
size, and they are now large trees. Since the first year 
I have had the ground annually dug about four feet in 
circumference round them, and I do not find the worms 
have attacked them yet; from accident two trees were 
neglected for two years after I limed the first, they 
scarcely bore a leaf; the ground was so hard as to be 
impenetrable to the roots. I have had lime thrown 
round them since, and they have recovered and borne 
some fine peaches, and will I believe grow to a good 
size ; the success of this experiment having convinced 
me that I could successfully raise peach trees on grass 
ground, I have been induced to plant out upwards of 
eight hundred in a field that will be alternately in grain 
and grass, some of which bore very fine fruit last sum- 
mer. Although the ground has been in clover since the 
trees were planted, they have a very healthy appearance, 
and bid fair to be very durable, but that, time only can 
ascertain, for my own part I am perfectly satisfied if 
they bring me only four good crops, for the trees are 
then worth nearly as much for fire wood as I pay for 
the young ones. I would recommend digging round 
the trees once a year it mixes the lime with the earth, 
much to the improvement of the soil; fresh slacked 
lime will not answer, as I have known a young orchard 
entirely destroyed by it, which has caused an opinion 
to prevail that lime in any way is prejudicial, and I was 
cautioned by old farmers from using it; but in the way 
I used it, after it had been deprived of its excessive heat 
by a long exposure to the weather, I am very certain 
of its producing the most beneficial effects on all kinds 
of trees. Ihave applied it to upwards of fifteen hun- 
