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if we wish fruit, we shall have at hand manures which pro 

 mote the fruiting properties of the tree ; if we want seed, 

 we shall have manures for it. But manures as now em 

 ployed, are, usually, not beneficial to orchards of young 

 trees. A clay soil, very stiff and adhesive, may require 

 sand and vegetable mold to render it permeable to the root ; 

 some very barren soils may require some manure ; but the 

 average of our farms are rich enough already, and too rich 

 for the good of the young tree. It would be better for the 

 orchard if it made less wood and made it better. 



If these directions make the prospect of fruit so distant 

 as to discourage the planting of orchards, we will add, plant 

 your orchard ; and if you cannot wait for its healthful 

 growth, plant also trees for immediate use, and serve them 

 just as you please ; manure them, cut them, get fruit at all 

 hazards; only make up your minds that they will be short 

 lived and liable to blight and disease. 



A LIST OF CHOICE FRUITS. 



OUR readers may desire a list of fruits, which are univer 

 sally admitted to be of first-rate excellence. We cannot 

 include, of course, all that are first rate ; but we put none 

 in that are not so. 



I. APPLES. 



I. SUMMER. 



Red er Carolina June. Prince s Harvest. 



Summer Queen. Kirkbridge White. 



Yellow Hoss. Sweet June. 



Sweet Bough. Daniel. 



