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a wagon load of this mixture was applied to six trees ; 

 in some rows it was mixed in the holes with the 

 earth in planting ; in others it was thrown around the 

 tree on the surface, after planting : the ground remain- 

 ed in clover, unploughed, and undug the following 

 year the trees put out well the first spring, but the 

 drought of the succeeding summer prevented their 

 growth ; those which did not perish, were nearly sta- 

 tionary : I replaced 130 the next fall, since which I 

 have replanted nearly one third more for the last 

 two years I have cultivated the ground with corn, by 

 which the surviving trees have been restored, and to- 

 gether with the replanted ones, at present exhibit an 

 uniform and vigorous appearance, promising, in eve- 

 ry respect, to be a fine orchard. 



In this lot was planted a nursery of young apple 

 trees ; the orchard trees were planted among them, in- 

 tended to remain there : this part was under constant 

 cultivation it contained 16 of the permanent trees, 

 which were manured as the other part of the orchard. 

 Not one of these 16 died all of them have grown 

 far beyond the others which effect I attribute to cul- 

 tivation alone. The above experiment was recorded 

 in 1807 it is now, in 1816, connected with No. 5, 

 and exhibits a regular and beautiful orchard of 800 

 trees on 16 and a half acres, at 30 feet apart: the soil 

 is light, I therefore planted the trees near ; as they 



