72 FRUJT TREES. 



in the furrow; one at the end of another. In the 

 next place, fill the trenches where you have laid your 

 cuttings, with rich mould or loam ; and you will have 

 a sprout for every bud on the cuttings. Roots will 

 start out from around the buds, and when the trees 

 are large enough to plant out, you should lay the cut- 

 tings bare, and saw or cut between the buds. Every 

 tree will thus have its roots, and will be ready to 

 be transplanted or sent to market. By this mode 

 you may produce them more rapidly than any other 

 way, and with the perfect assurance that they will 

 be of the genuine kind desired. The seed of 

 an apple will perhaps bring forth trees of all 

 kinds, except the kind you want ; but the cutting 

 can never bring forth any but the genuine original 

 kind. 



In this way the largest and thriftiest fruit trees may 

 be obtained. Every other year, those young fruit 

 trees should be manured, except the plum and the 

 peach ; which require a very light soil. The first, 

 if not the second winter, the roots of the young sci- 

 ons should be covered with straw to prevent them 

 from freezing; and early in the spring, this straw 

 should be carefully raked away and carried to the sta- 

 ble-yard. 



