Suggestions in regard to planting out Fruit Trees, 1 5 



rich compost: but will they continue to grow, when they shall 

 have extended beyond the bounds of the original excavation? 

 Will they not, by degrees, become mossy, dwindle for a while, 

 and finally sink into premature decay? 



When one is obliged to plant trees on a sandy or gravelly 

 soil, perhaps ditch or pond mud, (or clay in a less quantity,) 

 with a suitable proportion of compost manure, spread on to the 

 depth of several inches, and ploughed in, would be suflicient 

 where apple or pear trees are to be cultivated. 



Where cherry or plum trees are to be grown, it would be 

 better to cart on a sufficient quantity of rich loam, sods, Stc; 

 for plums, where it is practicable, perhaps a third or quarter part 

 of salt marsh mud may be used with advantage, to make the 

 soil of the depth. 



Where peach trees only are to be transplanted, a light dress- 

 ing of compost, consisting of stable manure, lime, wood ashes 

 and loam will answer the purpose. 



An error, which has been practised to a considerable extent, 

 is, that of transplanting the roots at a much too great depth for 

 the trees to flourish with vigor. 



The distance between the trees must be regulated by the size 

 which they will probably attain: they should not be planted so 

 near as to interfere with each other, when fully grown. 



When manure is spread round fruit trees, an erroneous prac- 

 tice prevails of putting it too near their trunks. 



Some varieties of apples and pears (it is probably the case 

 with other fruit trees, vines, &c.) will flourish where others will 

 not; the Roxbury russet apple requires a strong and rather moist 

 soil to produce large and fair fruit; the Rhode Island greening 

 flourishes on a comparatively light and dry loam; and the Ameri- 

 can summer pearmain (the tree is of small growth,) has the repu- 

 tation of succeeding on light or sandy soils. 



By some the autumn is preferred for removing trees, and by 

 others the spring. The spring is doubtless to be preferred for 

 the peach and plum: as regards apples and pears, if the ground 

 where they are to be set is somewhat moist, transplant them in 

 the spring; if it is rather dry, the autumn is quite as well. The 

 general rule for fruit trees is, when the sap is dormant. 



Select young and thrifty trees from the nursery, of good size, 

 not forgetting the great importance of their having sufficient roots; 

 dig the holes about six inches larger in diameter than the roots 

 are, when extended, and let the trees be planted not more than 

 one inch deeper than they grew in the nursery. It is generally 

 advisable to put some mulch (bushes which have been mown 

 answer a good purpose,) round trees the ensuing summer after 

 planting them, if the weather should prove dry, to be removed 

 in the autumn. 



