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remedy to my entire satisfaction, ftiul never had 

 occaMOii to repeat the croppini,' to accomplish my 

 piir[i( t^e; b it to provide against any posHil)le failure 

 of this treatiiieitt, mow the clover two j-ears in 

 su -iies ion, and then crop a^ai:i with Ikickwheat and 

 0.it8, as before, not forj;ettin<; llie manure if tae ^^)li 

 re((iiires it liy this means you produce p uin^f crops, 

 ■without injury to the laud, and deslioy the weeds at 

 the ftiii',' !inie. M. G. 



Middlcburgk, JV. Y. 



LIME AS A MANURE. 



I har« usei! I'me as a manure in various ways. — 

 For low land the best way is to spi-inklc it broad-cast 

 ■while the veij-etation is in a ueen state, at the mte of 

 forty or fifty bu.-^hels to the acre; but if 1 cannot 

 u.se'it before the frost kills the vegetation, I wait un 

 til the lciu;i h plovve^i in the sprin^:, when I sprinkU' 

 it on the plowed grouml, in about the same quantity 

 as before. IrJSt year I tried it both ways, and the 

 result w;is my crop was increased at least four fold in 

 each in.-tance, hut that used on the vegetation was 

 best; — the soil n low black sand. W. 



Laurel, Delaware. 



IS THE CTJLTIVATIOM OF Ff.UIT 0^ A MOEE EX- 

 TENDED SCALE DJiSlRAELE? 



At the present time, apples, in this city, are worth 

 from one (Uiilar to one dollar and twenty five cents per 

 bushel; iii Chicago they readily command from seven 

 to ei'>ht diillars per barrel; in New York from three 

 to five dollars per barrel, and in the greater part of 

 Canada they cannot be had at any price, and undoubt 

 ediy the .'lame is true of very many localities through- 

 ouo the Union, without referriuir to the new States 

 at the west, which comparatively speaking, are entire- 

 ly de.stilute of fruit, except such as is indigenous. In 

 localities where there. is a tolerable .supply, it is usually 

 of the veiy poorest kinds, grown on needling trees, 

 and such as no one who has been in the habit of using 

 good fruit would deign to touch. Peaches, during 

 the last ten years have averaged a dollar per basket, 

 (three pecks) in this market; in the plcntiest seasons 

 the [)rice ot good peaches has not been less than fifty 

 cents a basket, and that only for a few days when there 

 ■was the largest quantity in the market, and both at 

 the commencement and at the close of those seasons 

 they have commanded from one dollar and fifty cents 

 to three dollars per basket. In the fail of 1855, when 

 the prices of ppaches in this city went down to seven- 

 ty-five cents and fifty cents per basket, an exten.^ive 

 fruit grower in this section contracted his entire crop 

 in the city of Buffalo for one dollar and sixty-two and a 

 half cents, and at the difTerent port.? in the Canada?, 

 they brought from two dollars to two dollars and fifty 

 cents. At th'-it time an experienced raid jntclli<ient 

 orchaidist, uftirmed that the large crop he then had, 

 ■with the low prices, vvfas full as profitable as the small- 

 er crops with higher prices, as often was the case. 



Last fall Catawba and Isabella grapes sold in the 

 Chicago market, at fifty cents per pound; in Toronto, 

 Kingston, \l )ntreal, &c., at twenty-five and thirty 

 cents; in New York from fifteen to twenty cents ; 

 ■while at three or four cents a pound, no crop can be 

 more remunerative than these. 



To [lears we need scarcely allude; the sight of a 

 good pear is ot such s-eldom occurrence, that when it 

 does happen, we gaze with a sort of strange curiosity, 



as to its orii,nii and qualities and its [)rec).se ielali(;n 

 to other meiuoers ot he pomolojiical family. The 

 prices ai wmcn pt-urs sell, uru almost fabulous; from 

 tive to leu «li'lluis a bushtd, and df.en mort-. ncconling 

 t,o quality, l>eing common prices for good fruit. Tea 

 cents is a common retail price for a good pear in thia 

 city, and in New York or Bo.^-tou they go current at 

 iwfiity-nve cents, ^mr/-/<-«n coin; while, in Cliicago 

 a first rate article is sold, two for a d<diar. 



Ai the late meeting of the Fruit (irowcrs' Associ- 

 ation of Western New Voik, Mr. I'i-owkk of Syra- 

 cuse, stated that a geiitlcmiiii near that city had ."-old 

 eifeht hundred dollars worth of grapes from half an 

 acre of grour.d. Mr. Ai.Nswomii, of Bloomtitld, 

 stated tliat he had cultivated the grape pretty largely 

 and with entire success ; that he got a fair crop the 

 third year after planting, and that at present (jiices 

 tne cultivator can depend upon from $.">()() to 5;'80O 

 per acre profit. Mr. Hodge remarked that there 

 could be no (juestion about making pear culture pay; 

 a tree in his vicinity bpre forty bushels last season, 

 and another belonging to his brotiier, bore twenty 

 bushels, which were sold at two dollars per bushel ; 

 it was an inferior variety. In \m address before the 

 .American Fomological Society, held in this city last 

 September, the President, the Hon. Maksiiai,!. ^. 

 Wilder, says: "A gentleman in the eastern part ot 

 Massachusetts planted in the years 1848 and 1849, aa 

 many dwaif pear trees as he could set on an acre of 

 land, at the distance of eight by twelve feet, and be- 

 iween these rows he planted quince bu.-hes. In the 

 fifth year irom planting, he gathered onehundied and 

 twenty bushels of pears, and sixty bttshels of quinces. 

 Of the former, he sold seventy bushels at five to six 

 dollars per bushel; and he now iulonnes me that he 

 ha.s lost only three per cent, of the original trees, and 

 that the remainder are in heel^hful condition."' 



Most persons will, no doubt, consider these state- 

 ments slightly exaggerated, but if they will take the 

 trouble to make the projier inquiry, they can verify 

 them for themselves. Without mentioning other 

 varieties of fruit which, under certain circuni.<-i&nceg, 

 are not less -^vorthy the attention of the cultivator, 

 we cannot but conclude from the above facts, that 

 the cultivation of no crops, in a pecuniary point of 

 view, can be more desirable than our hardy fruit. 



Many ol)ject to planting orchards because it is so 

 long, they say, before anything can be realized that 

 they are discouraged from making the attempt, and 

 they thus pass a life time, long enough to bring into 

 bearing a dozen orchards, without raising enough 

 fruit to supply their own families, or even themselves. 

 Again, for many years past, there has been in the 

 minds of many a fear that the nimkets would be 

 overstocked with fruit, but we certainly have not yet 

 arrived at that point, and from all indications are 

 further from it now than vre were ten years ago; 

 prices of all kinds of fruit run higher now than then; 

 the demand has multiplied in a more rapid ratio.than 

 the supply; the increased circulation of agricultural 

 and horticultural literature, and the establishment, all 

 over the country, of societies for the exhibition of 

 fruit, and other i'arm and garden products, has created 

 a discriminating and apprechitiv* taste in the public 

 mind for good fruit; a barrel of Northern Spy. or 

 Norton's iNIelon Apple, will sell as quick as offeied in 

 the market at five dollars, while, a few years sgo, 

 when an apple was an apple and nothing niore, ;t 

 would bring scarcely more than one of commoia fruit. 



