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than fifteen in one hundred are living now ; yet the investment 

 hiis brought, I think, ten per cent, on my time and money em- 

 ployed, besides happiness in seeing the trees grow, bloom, and 

 become loaded with fruit, which can not be measured by dollars 

 and cents. 



LIST OF PEARS. 



The standards are: Beurre Giffards. Bartlett, Sickle, Shel- 

 don. 



The Dwarfs are : Louise Bonne de Jersey, Duchesse d* 

 Angoulome. 



CHERRY ORCnARD. 



The Early May is to the cherry, what the Rawle's Jannet^ 

 is to the apple, the Sheldon to the pear, and the Concord to the-- 

 grape — the stand-by. 



My trees are planted ten feet apart each way, and bear 

 well the seasons that the cherry hits. For the first few years- 

 1 plowed among the trees ; the last ten years the ground has 

 been in grass. If I were to plant again, I should plant twenty 

 feet apart, each way. The cherry is not so well colored, and 

 not so sweet, when the trees are crowded. The plum stone 

 Morello is a good late cherry, and bears nearly every year. 



The English Morello I find to be the best cherry for pies 

 and canning. I have twelve trees of this variety, and for the 

 last ten j-ears, have placed annually around each tree, a wheel- 

 barrow load of manure. My trees are very healthy, and bear 

 almost as well as the Early May. 



THE CURRANT. 



No fruit gives a more generous return for good cultivation^ 

 than this ; and though it will grow in almost any soil, yet to- 

 have really fine fruit, the ground should be well prepared by^ 

 bountiful manuring, with well-rotted stable manure, and deep 

 and thorough plowing. 



In plantuig, the roots should have plenty of room so that 

 they may be spread out in their natural position ; and the earth 

 should be carefully drawn around them, so that after the 

 ground settles, they will be no deeper than they stood in the 

 nursery. 



