ilQ AGRieUXTURAL ESSAYS. 



sect is limited to a certain period for depositing its eggs ; and 

 that if the tender pods are not found till that period is passed, 

 the peas will be free from bugs. Wyoming (now Wilkes- 

 bare) is in latitude 41 degrees, 13 minutes. The active flight 

 of the pea bug will be doubtless earlier there than in raor^ 

 nertherly regions. 



GULTFRE OF PrUIT-TrE£S. 



If success is expected in raising fruit-trees, much attention 

 IS necessary, both in the planting them, and afterwards in 

 their preservation. 



In taking up the tree from the nursery, care should be taken 

 to dig away the earth around the roots, so as to come at their 

 Several parts to cut them off; for if they are torn out of the 



f round, as they frequently are, the roots will be broken and 

 ruised, to the great injury of the trees. To prepare them for 

 planting, all the small fibres are to be cut off, as near to the 

 place from whence they are produced as may be, excepting^ 

 perhaps, when they are to be immediately replanted as soon 

 as taken up. But it will require great care to plant them in 

 such a manner as not to distort or entangle the fibrous roots, 

 which will be worse for the plant than if they were cut off. 

 All the bruised or broken roots, all such as are irregular, and 

 cross each other, and all downright roots in fruit-trees, should 

 be pruned off. The lateral, or side roots, should be shortened 

 in proportion to the age, the strength, and nature of the trees. 

 The walnut, mulberry, and some other tender rooted kinds, 

 should not be pruned so close, as the more hardy sorts of fruit- 

 and forest trees. In young fruit trees, such as pears, apples, 

 plumbs, and peaches, that are one year old from the time of 

 their budding, or grafting, the roots may be left only about 

 eight or nine inches long. This is only to be understood of 

 the longer roots. 



In pruning their heads, prune off all the small branches, and 

 irregular ones which cross each other ; also all sueh parts of 

 branches as have been broken or wounded, leaving only the 

 main leading shoots which are necessary to attract the sap 

 firem the root, thereby to promote the growth of t-he tree. 



