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increasing pecuniary compensation to the intelligent cultivator, why 

 we would urge the universal culture of the various garden fruits in 

 their succession, till our fruit rooms shall be as common as cellar or 

 pantry ; our drawers of grapes and pears for winter use, shall be 

 more universal even than our good stores of apples now ; and the 

 time come when the poorest and humblest man, from his little 

 plat of ground, may nourish and delight his little ones, the year 

 round, with the luxury of successive fruits, grown to be a necessary 

 comfort. 



And to this end it might be well for Agricultural and Horticultural 

 Associations, not only to distribute in their counties and towns the 

 best seeds, the finest and most profitable scions, plants and trees, 

 grown to that end ; but — what is of equal, if not greater impoit nse 

 — to disseminate, by publications and by lectures before Lyceums 

 and Agricultural Clubft, a knowledge of the correct principles of 

 fruit culture, — a subject concerning which we can only drop a [ew 

 hints in conclusion. 



In the^rs^ j)lacc,it must be borne in mind, that, as in all culture, 

 so most especially in fruit culture, is deep tillage the sine qua non ; 

 that trenching, subsoiling,- and double-spading are absolutely essential 

 to enable the roots to run down into a mellow rich soil, and thus pro- 

 duce an abundance of fair, large, and luscious fruitage. A neighbor 

 of ours feared that he should lose a favorite pear tree, because one 

 of his workmen dug a great trench by its side, in which to bury his 

 cabbages for the winter. In place of receiving any injury, however, 

 the tree was stimulated to a new growth and a most prolific produc- 

 tion of fruit of uncommon size and flavor ; and the next year, of 

 course, saw our friend trenching for pears himself. In setting out 

 an apple orchard, or a few pear trees, there are many who will but 

 just hoe a hole in the ground large enough to bury a cat in, pop the 

 roots into it, and, as the trees dry up and die, have the impudence 

 to say, " Oh ! we never had any luck with trees." We always give 

 thanks when any of our friends, who have the folly and the cruelty 

 to deal thus with their trees, lose them ; for they ought to die, and 

 it is only a just retribution. 



Secondly/. — The proper enriching of the soil, thus deeply tilled, 

 is of hardly less importance. A tree can no more grow without its 

 appropriate food, than a man can. And it is the salts of earths and 

 manures, dissolved in water, that feed the roots of trees. There are 



