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persons wlio have not seen this mode, 

 can calculate on the many advantages 

 it possesses. Not the least of which is, 

 that the sun and air have room, from the 

 uniformity in size of these trees, to cir- 

 culate freely through the whole. It 

 should be observed, that it is attended 

 with little trouble and expence after the 

 first time of tying, excepting that of 

 going over the trees and thinning the 

 wood every winter. I cannot help think- 

 ing, but this mode, were it introduced 

 into our cyder counties, might be pro- 

 ductive of much good; I have myself, 

 here, made an experimental orchard on 

 this plan, and on one quarter of an acre 

 of ground I have two hundred and forty 

 trees growing, the area of whose sur- 

 faces, taken collectively, amounts to 

 nearly as much as that of the whole 

 ground. It has now been planted four 

 years, and the trees are in full bear- 

 ing. Thus the land is become valuable 

 as a fruit orchard, in less time than the 

 generahty of orchard-planters can get 

 their stocks to take fair root in, besides 



