1846.] 



Growth of Orchards, ^x. 



137 



Times of Vegetation- 



Match 1 to May 19, 



May 19 to June 9, 



Jtine 9 to August 15, 



Mean assimilation per day, 



Per day and per lieclare. 



M. Boussingault had collected the necessary materials for exe- 

 cuting a work of the same kind on leguminous plants; but the 

 increase of weight in dry vegetable matter was so considerable 

 between flowering and maturity, that the analysis became useless 

 for estimating the consequence deduced from the experiment un- 

 dertaken on the culture of Wheat, viz., that after fecundation 

 plants continue to fix in their tissues elements derived from the 

 soil and atmosphere. 



GROWTH OF ORCHARDS— PEACHES— PLUMS. 



We published not long since the growth of a young orchard; 

 we now give another instance. W^e think it is well to give these 

 examples occasionally, that none -may be deterred from setting 

 fruit trees, with the notion that it requires the long life-time of a 

 person for them to come into bearing. One thing the reader will 

 please bear in mind, and that is the cases we name are favorable 

 ones, the result of skill and good management, but it is no more 

 than others can do under favorable circumstances. 



A short time ago we had the pleasure of visiting the farm and 

 fruit orchard of Mr. Moses Jones, Brookline. Mr. Jones is one 

 of the best cultivators in the country, in farming, gardening, and 

 fruit growing; but few can obtain so much profit from the same 

 extent of land. He is not only a skilful manager, but a very con- 

 stant and industrious worker, giving his personal and practical 

 attention to every department. He commenced with nothing 

 when he was twenty-one years of age, and he has made his pro- 

 perty by farming, and he now has enough — a fortune, if one 

 can call that a fortune which makes him independent, and af- 

 fords all that one needs or can enjoy. This gain of property is 

 in some measure from the rise of lands, but without regard to the 



