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quently in the West, we have tens of thousands of trees, 

 planted from eight to twenty feet apart, whose limbs touch, 

 and which are unpruned, and in an unhealthy condition. 



PRUNING. 



Some have commenced cutting out every other tree; 

 others prune up six or eight feet high. I have pruned more 

 than enough fuel for a year's consumption from my orchard, 

 and yet it needs more. 



In my late planting, I have aimed to plant two rods apart, 

 good healthy two and three year old trees, with limbs coming 

 out like the thumb -from the hand, not having branches closer 

 than from three to four feet from the ground. I try to grow 

 them in a conical form, with the limbs twelve to eighteen inches 

 apart, and equally distributed around the tree. I have no 

 forks. 



BEARING TREES 



My first trees bore some fruit after being set out five 

 years. I would prefer not to have them bear heavily until 

 they had ten j'^ears' growth in orchard. The best bearers are 

 those that are the most heavily manured. A wagon load scat- 

 tered underneath the branches of a large tree, seems to make 

 it bear well, and I think it a great help, causing the tree to 

 endure the drouths of Summer, and the cold, dry freezes of 

 Winter. My Northern Spy trees bear grandly, treated as 

 above, every year. The weeds are mowed down in July or 

 August, and are left on the ground for mulch. 



LIST OF APPLES. 



For Summer. Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, Benoni, Early Joe. 



For Autumn. Lowell, Dyer, Maiden's Blush, early Pennock, 

 Rambo, Fameuse. 



For Winter. Ben Davis, Rawle's Jannet, Willow Twig, Jona- 

 than, Northern Spy, Winesap, Small Romanite, Grimes' Golden. 



PEAR ORCHARD. 



It is with some diffidence that I write about the pear, 

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