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sales of land, considering it for cultivation only, he has a very- 

 handsome income. 



About nine or ten years ago, Mr. Jones cut av^ay the growth 

 on a side hill, and set out an orchard of 112 apple trees, two rods 

 apart. The eighth year after he set the trees, his crop of apples 

 was 103 barrels. Any one acquainted with the growth of young 

 trees under good cultivation, knows very well that the crop will 

 soon be doubled, and before long it will be quadrupled. Mr. 

 Jones has manured and cultivated among these trees, raising va- 

 rious crops which have more than paid the expense of manure and 

 cultivation. 



Thus far this appears very well, and those who neglect their 

 trees so that they never grow well nor become productive may 

 call this a great story. We recommend to such a visit to this 

 orchard, that they may contrast the management and success of 

 others with their own. But there is another important item which 

 we will introduce into this account, that will make the story bet- 

 ter still, if not greater. A few years after the apple trees were 

 set, peach trees were set between the apple trees in the rows, and 

 w^hole rows of peach trees were set between the rows of apple 

 trees, in the inner part of the orchard, but not on the outside. 

 The trees do not yet interfere, and the peach trees will doubtless 

 decay after bearing plentifully a few years; and in this case it 

 should be considered that the peach trees were set several years 

 after the apple trees. Had they been set at the same time, they 

 would doubtless have declined long before they interfered with 

 the apple trees. 



But now as to the cost and profit of these trees, which some 

 cultivators would think should not be set there, if their practice 

 accords with their opinions. Mr. Jones gave $ 100 for 400 trees, 

 and some of his neighbors laughed at him for his injudicious ex- 

 penditure, and one remarked that he would never see his $100 

 again. Most of these trees, as the reader may calculate, were 

 required for this piece. The crop of peaches last season sold for 

 $400. 



Mr. Jones had a number of plum trees that were large enough 

 to bear, but he got no fruit, whether from its not setting or from 

 the destruction of the curculio, we do not remember, as we write 

 from memory; they were among his asparagus, and having heard 

 that dock mud was good for asparagus, he applied it to that pur- 

 pose, and since then he has had good crops of plums, doubtless 

 from the good effects of the salt in the mud. 



We measured some apple trees in Mr. Jones' orchard that were 

 only 11 years old that were one foot in diameter, and have doubt- 

 less produced 4 or 5 barrels of fruit in a year. Mr. J. has a hand- 



