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raise crops of clover and mow them. But I found my 

 orchard decaying, and immediately began to feed it, 

 and it recovered. I have since had clover in my or- 

 chard, but have been careful by feeding it, to keep it 

 from having any bloom ; and it does not injure it, as it 

 manifestly did when suifered to come to maturity, so as 

 to be fit for mowinsr. 



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Mr. Chauncy in the year 1800, upon remarking to a 

 farmer in Pennsylvania, who shewed him a large apple 

 orchard, of about fourteen years growth, in which red 

 clover grew, that many of the farmers in N. England 

 considered that plan as detrimental to their fruit trees, if 

 suffered to grow for hay, received the following reply. 



*'I trust, you seldom if ever, saw an orchard more 

 thriving than this ; I keep it in clover almost constantly, 

 and generally for hay, but plaister of Paris, does every 

 thing for clover, and is highly beneficial as a manure, for 

 fruit trees. I grow great crops of clover with it, and it 

 prevents any ill eflects which might otherwise arise from 

 the clover."] 



