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CHAPTER XIII. 



EXPERIMENTS ON ORCHARDS, TO ASCER- 

 TAIN THE BEST MODE OF PLANTING AND 

 CULTIVATING. 



EXPERIMENT NO. 1. 



In the fall of 1794, I commenced the plantation of 

 an orchard, which I continued for tAVO succeeding Au- 

 tumns the soil loamy, and naturally pretty strong; 

 the aspect favourable the distance fifty feet. Having 

 no experience, and but little correct information, (for at 

 that time a young orchard was a novelty in my neigh- 

 bourhood,) the holes were dug deep and narrow, under 

 an erroneous belief of this being necessary to support 

 the trees : The ground was for several years kept in 

 clover, and part of it being rather stiff, the natural 

 green grass prevailed so much, as to injure the trees 

 extremely. The trees grew slowly many of them 

 have been taken up, after remaining in a feeble, stunt- 



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