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dwarfs, and let your choicest trees have a chance to 

 run under the pig-pen if they will. Plant here also, 

 if your climate does not forbid, a dozen well-chosen 

 Peach-trees, and two each year thereafter to replace 

 those that will soon be dying out ; and give half a 

 dozen Quinces moist and rich locations by the side of 

 your fences; surrounding each tree -with stakes or 

 pickets that will preclude too great familiarity on the 

 part of the swine, and will not prevent a sharp scru- 

 tiny for borers in their season. Do not forget that a 

 fruit-tree is like a cow tied to an immovable stake, 

 from which you cannot continue to draw a pail of 

 milk per day unless you carry her a liberal supply of 

 food ; and every Fall cart in half a dozen loads of 

 muck from some convenient swamp or pond for your 

 pigs to turn over. Should they leave any weeds, cut 

 them with a scythe as often as they seem to need it ; 

 never allowing one to ripen seed. There may be 

 easier and surer ways to obtain choice fruits ; but 

 this one commends itself to my judgment as not sur- 

 passed by any other. I think few have grown fruits 

 to profit but those who make this a specialty ; and I 

 feel that disappointment in fruit-culture is by no 

 means near the end. You can grow Plums, or 

 Grapes, or Peaches, outside of the climate most con- 

 genial to them, but this is a work wherein success is 

 likely to cost more than its worth. Try it first on a 

 small scale, if you will try it ; and be sure you do it 

 thoroughly. 



