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will afford the pure juice for sugar, and the best of timber 

 for cabinet and other kinds of work, and all poor trees 

 may be worked up for fuel. Our soil is rich and well 

 adapted for the sugar maple. 



This tree, beside or around a dwelling is an ornament, 

 and also by the road-side. How pleasant and beautiful 

 would be the scenery, if this tree, in its full growth and 

 splendor, were along each side of our roads! We have 

 seen the maple tree no taller than a walking-staff, become, 

 in fifteen years, so large as to afford sap and sugar. Be 

 not discouraged by looking forward, and say it will be a 

 long time before you can have any benefit by sugar. 

 You must remember the timber is growing every year, 

 and wait with patience, and be assured the other part 

 will not fail. 



The sugar maple, if for transplanting, should be of the 

 size of from one to two inches in diameter, and from one 

 to two feet above the ground. Select those of smooth bark, 

 looking young and healthy. We prefer short tops, but 

 if long body and top, cut it off so as to leave the body ten 

 or twelve feet. The tree being carefully taken up and 

 prepared, is to be placed in the ground but one or two 

 inches lower than it stood before. Care should be taken 

 <j place fresh earth round the roots, and till well rooted, 

 care should be taken to keep creatures from rubbing 

 against them. 



PEACHES. 



Those who would raise peach trees should prefer stones 

 that are raised in the north, for if stones from southern 

 peaches be planted, the trees will be tender. The peach 

 is a tender tree, and peculiar to warm climates, and in 

 cultivating it so far from its native climate, care is neces- 

 sary to success. We must have particular regard to soil, 



