OF FRUIT TREES, j)5 



irom the canker worm ; and if the operation is per- 

 formed in June, he can raise a crop of potatoes round 

 the trees the first season. Hence it is obvious, that 

 several very important advantages will be obtained in 

 addition to the prime object ; and the prudent farmer, 

 who adopts this method, will have in view the most, 

 if not the whole, of the following distinct objects : 



1. Extermination of the canker worms. 



2. Growth of the trees. 



3. Fruitfulness of the trees. 



4. Defence against the moles. 



5. Several crops of potatoes. 



6. Manufacture of compost. 



Mr. Kenrick never having had any canker worms 

 on his farm, could not personally prove the efficacy of 

 the method proposed, by actual experiment. But it 

 should be strongly recommended to the attention of 

 cultivators of orchards, and it is hoped the publick 

 may be made acquainted with the result of every trial, 



John Lowell, esquire, (Mass. Agricul. Repos.) ob- 

 serves, that "the expense of tarring an orchard for sev- 

 eral years, together with the injury sustained by the 

 trees in the common mode of doing it, will be nearly 

 equivalent to a total loss. The improvements, intro- 

 duced by Mr. Parsons, and other cultivators, of sur- 

 rounding the trees with canvass and rope-yarn, and 

 stopping the descent of the tar by a bandage of coarse 

 hemp, together with the mixture of the tar with oil, 

 so as to keep it longer in a soft state, have very much 

 diminished the inconvenience of the old practice. 

 Still much remains to be desired. The process is im- 

 perfect, unless performed as faithfully in the fall as ia 

 the spring. If your neighbours are inattentive, you 

 may be subjected to this labour for ten or twenty 

 years, and your orchards will scarcely pay the contin- 

 ued and accumulated expense. Something further 

 seems to be desirable j some mode more simple, les 



