The Rescue of an Old Place 



owing to the marshy ground below, lie 

 very near the surface. 



Last year was not their bearing year, 

 and not until this autumn could we tell the 

 effect of this surgery, which seems to have 

 had fairly good results, for the yield was 

 satisfactory though not large. The plow- 

 ing was not done so much for the trees as 

 for the grass, which had been fairly driven 

 out by the encroachments of the Money- 

 wort, which has escaped from the garden 

 and runs riot over the place ; and the prun- 

 ing was as necessary for the hay-crop as for 

 the fruit, for the great Elm hard by helps 

 to shade all that part of the grounds, and 

 even now the grass, when cut, has to be 

 transported into the open to be cured. 



The year we took possession, three 

 trees at this point a Baldwin, a Rhode 

 Island Greening and a Russet furnished 

 us with about a dozen barrels of apples. 

 In addition, there are in other parts of the 

 place more old-fashioned trees, like the 

 Seek-no-Further and Early Sweet, that are 

 extremely useful, and fairly productive in 

 spite of their years and infirmities. One 

 of the latter trees is quite a curiosity, for 

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