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the first year after the trees are planted ; the next year, it is 

 sown to clover, which is turned in as a green crop ; this, 

 with a light application of manure, is repeated every year. 

 The trees are thus kept in a vigorous growing condition, and we 

 saw no evidence of a yellow peach tree in the whole orchard. 

 The apple orchards, with one or two exceptions, are culti- 

 vated in the same manner, that is, manure and a crop of 

 clover every year : pursuing this system, the trees make an 

 exceedingly vigorous growth, and, when they begin to bear, are 

 loaded with finest specimens of fruit. Mr. Langworthy has 

 introduced into his orchard all the most popular apples, and 

 we here saw the Northern Spy in full bearing — a sight which 

 we had long wished for, and which we were most happy 

 to have so good an opportunity of gratifying. And we 

 need scarcely say that we were most agreeably disappointed. 

 In the place of a tree partially covered with fruit, about four 

 fifths of which, it has been said, was scrubby and worthless, 

 for any purposes of sale, we found a tree literally loaded with 

 large and beautiful fruit, — its bright purplish skin covered, like 

 the plum, with a dehcate bloom, — not one in ten but what was 

 as fair, or fairer, than any crop of Baldwins we have ever 

 seen, and far superior, in this respect, to either the Rhode 

 Island Greening, or the Roxbury Russet : we were surprised 

 and delighted with the sight. The Northern Spy is a very 

 upright grower, making a head as erect as a poplar, though 

 not quite so compact; so erect are the branches, that, no mat- 

 ter how large the crop of fruit, they rarely bend ; for, when 

 the branch once begins to bend, it is likely to split off; a tree 

 was pointed out to us, which, last year, produced so great a 

 crop, that a large branch, nearly one quarter of the tree, split 

 off and fell to the ground. How any person, who had seen 

 a healthy tree, could ever have made a statement, that only 

 fifteen out of seventy five barrels were fit for market, we 

 have been unable to imagine. We regard it as not only one 

 of the finest varieties we possess, but a vigorous grower, a 

 handsomely headed tree, producing a great crop of large and 

 fair fruit— and decidedly one of the best keeping apples. The 

 appearance of the tree in fruit, is remarkably peculiar and 

 ornamental. The branches being long and upright, the apples 

 are borne on each side of them, in rows sometimes three feet 



