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This practice is absolutely necessary in the middle and eastern 

 states, as, during winter, the earth is so hard frozen as to render it | 

 impracticable to take up the plants out of the open ground, when; 

 wanted, without injury ; moreover, when they are potted at this | 

 season, their roots will be well established, before the time of 

 forcing commences, and consequently the ptants will be much 

 more productive of fruit. 



THE ORCHARD. 



Collecting ripe Fruit. 



APPLES and pears that attain now to full maturity, rarely keep 

 as well as those which ripen in the ensuing month, but when it is 

 desirable to preserve them as long as possible ; they must be treated 

 as directed in October. 



Wh~-n planting of fruit-trees is intended in the months of Octo- 

 ber, or November, opportunity ought to be taken of any leisure 

 time that may now occur, for the preparation of the ground as di- 

 rected in March, under the head Orchard. 



THE VINEYARD. 



I am very happy in having it in my power to exhibit to my fellow 

 citizens and the public, the annexed comparative and very interest- 

 ing table of the progress of vegetation in Pennsylvania, Paris, the 

 ci-devant Champagne and Burgundy ; the more especially, as it 

 proves the decided advantage we possess, of a full month, in the 

 season of our vintage, over those famous wine countries. It also, 

 exhibits the medium temperature of heat in Pennsylvania, the West 

 Indies, Paris, Champagne, Lorrain, Arras, Brussels, and Stockholm 

 in Europe, Algiers in Africa, and Pondicherry in Asia, which, no 

 doubt, will be very interresting to Meteorologists and other men 

 of science. But it is of peculiar importance, on account of it 



