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for man. The secret of transplanting is to handle the young 

 trees as carefully as we do sleeping infants, and they (the trees,) 

 can be put from one bed into another without knowing it. 

 Their new bed should be made wide and deep, and if the slats 

 are made of old ribs and other bones, all the better. Over these 

 bones the soft mould should be sprinkled, and if the roots are 

 carefully laid upon this and well tucked up with surface soil,' 

 our word for it, the trees will grow like willows of the brook. 



VARIETIES. 



Of the thousands of varieties of apple-trees in the catalogues 

 of our nurserymen, which shall we select for a New England 

 orchard ? The answer to this question must vary somewhat 

 with circumstances. The theory generally has been that winter 

 fruit paid much better than summer ; but if a sufficient market 

 is near by, our experience is in favor of cultivating a due pro- 

 portion of summer apples ; and whether near to or remote from 

 a market, enough Early Harvests, Red Astrachans and Early 

 Sweet Boughs should be raised for family use. In the bilious 

 dog-days of July and August, nothing is more grateful to the • 

 stomach than the acid of the apple. It is cheaper than pills 

 and powders, and (begging pardon of the doctors on the Board,) 

 far more effectual. A quarter of a century since some city 

 cousins were making us a summer visit, and very naturally 

 wanted some apples, and we scoured the home orchard and 

 neighboring orchards in vain for some palatable fruit, and we 

 resolved that another decade should not find us in this destitute 

 condition. It was a mistake of our fathers that apples in the 

 summer were unhealthy. On the contrary, ripe, juicy fruit is 

 never more healthful than in the warm season ; and that nature 

 craves it is manifest from the multitudes of lawless boys and, we 

 are sorry to say, men, that are so eager to club the trees as soon 

 as the fruit, by its tinge of red or gold, shows signs of matu- 

 rity. The market demand for fruit at this season has also 

 greatly increased, so that we are inclined to think a good sprink- 

 ling of early apples in the orchard will be found profitable. 



For autumn use, the Early Strawberry, Golden Sweet, Grav- 

 enstein. Fall Pearmain, Porter, Pameuse and Fall Pippen we 

 have found to thrive well, and are essential in every well- 

 appointed orchard. To the above named dessert fruits we wish 



