1 4 Suggestions in regard to planting out Pruit Trees. 



15° to 17° Reaumur, so as to obtain healthy and vigorous shoots, 

 which must be allowed to bear no fruit or small branches. In 

 this way strong vines, and of the necessary length, will be ob- 

 tained. By the" end of March these vines will have grown so 

 much, that the wood will be prepared for ripening in the month 

 of April, which must be effected by a decline of temperature to 

 8° — 10° Reaumur. In the beginning of May the vines must be 

 taken down, and, after having laid fourteen days, they must be 

 sewed up in coarse canvass, covered with shutters, and the shut- 

 ters with earth and leaves. There they must remain until the 

 end of July. In August begin to air them by degrees, and in 

 the month of September the covers should be taken off, the vines 

 trimmed and tied up. The forcing should now commence, giv- 

 ing the vines a moist atmosphere, and a temperature of 16° — 18° 

 Reaumur, until the fruit is ripe. 



The season of the vines is then changed, and by the same at- 

 tention to the time of repose, they will bear as readily and abun- 

 dantly in winter as at any other season. 



T. A. Ohlendokf, 



Pres. of Hamburgh Hort. Society. 



Art. IV. Jl few Suggestions in regard to planting out Fruit 

 frees. By E. M. R. 



Does it not frequently happen, that those about to commence 

 planting trees are not sufficiently aware what a very important 

 item the soil forms? Where the soil is not particularly adapted 

 to the growth of fruit trees, is it not much better to devote a suf- 

 ficient quantity entirely to that purpose, and render it fit by deep 

 ploughing, trenching, manuring, and, in short, to make the soil 

 of a suitable depth, — say eighteen inches at least, — than to plant 

 out trees promiscuously over a large tract? 



It is believed that a much greater quantity of fruit, of a much 

 superior quality, may be grown on one acre of land naturally 

 suitable for the purpose, or made so by art, than can be raised 

 on several where its adaptation is not taken into the account. 



It is doubtless true that trees may be made to flourish for a 

 while, in a soil naturally barren, (or exhausted by injudicious cul- 

 tivation,) by digging the holes, for their reception, very large and 

 deep, filling them, when the trees arc being transplanted, with a 



