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tainly worth cultivating. Let me repeat the word, culti- 

 vating, with an emphasis ; for it is a most miserable and 

 fatal error to suppose that peach trees can be stuck down 

 in any by-place, and produce good fruit without cultiva- 

 tion, in this latitude. 



There is another fact worth noticing in this fruit : the 

 trees are all seedlings. I know of some who have neg- 

 lected to set out trees, because they said it was of no use 

 to set them until they could get grafts. 



The trees are five years old. As to my way of culti- 

 vating them, I do not think it necessary to intrude upon 

 the notice of others, unless they request it. 



I have, of necessity, been obliged to send those I have 

 to you while hard, and of course you will not get them 

 in that perfection that you would to take them mellow 

 from the trees. But, if you will give me a call in the 

 tourse of the present week, I will give you such a feast of 

 sugared peaches and rich sweet cream, as you cannot 

 get in such perfection at any other place within forty 

 miles of Chicago. 



I doubt whether I shall be able to make a trip, as 

 talked of, in Illinois, before the Fair. But of that, more 

 anon. Your friend, 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake C. H., la., August, 1842. 



Fence, or No Fence? 



[Chicago Union Agriculturist, 2:84; Oct., 1842] 



[August, 1842] 

 Mr. Editor: The following very important decision 

 has been made by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in 

 an action that was brought to recover damage committed 

 by cattle suffered to run at large, without being under 

 the charge of a keeper. I have no doubt but that the 

 same rule of laws is as applicable in Illinois and Indiana 

 as in New Jersey ; and if enforced, it would make a very 

 material point in favor of the advocates of cultivating 



