NOV.] DIGGING, &C. 261 



among them was not digged last month, let it be 

 turned over, and be laid up in a rough manner, as 

 formerly noticed, that it may be the better melio- 

 rated by the action of the weather. 



The rows of strawberries may likewise now be 

 digged, and, if necessary, maybe manured, if that 

 have not been done as directed in September. 



Of digging the Ground among young Orchard. Trees. 

 If the cultivation of orchard-fruits be industri- 

 ously followed, the ground among the trees should 

 be digged and kept with the hoe, for the first seven 

 or eight years after planting. In order to defray 

 the expense incurred in doing so, it is very proper 

 to crop the ground with vegetables to a certain ex- 

 tent ; but by no means to such an extent as to in- 

 jure the trees ; which, however, is too frequently 

 the case, and is very erroneous. If the following 

 rule with respect to this matter were followed, the 

 expense of keeping the ground, and the rent would 

 be fully paid ; and the trees would not be injured, 

 but, on the contrary, be benefited. Crop to within 

 two feet of the trees the first year ; a yard the se- 

 cond ; four feet the third ; and so on until finally 

 relinquished ; which of course would be agailit the 

 eighth year, provided the trees were planted at the 

 distances, and as directed in Section V. 



By this time, if the kinds have been well chosen, 

 the temporary trees will be in full bearnig, and will 

 forthwith defray every necessary expense while they 

 remain, or until the principal trees come into a bear- 

 ing state, aad it become necessary to remove them ; 



