ON FRriT TREES. b3 



In the spring of 1846, I spread upon the acre about eight cords 

 of coarse manure from the barnyard and hog pen, and ploughed it 

 very fine about the 10th of April, and immediately after set out sev- 

 enty-six trees in rows, twenty feet apart each way, viz forty-two 

 Baldwins, eleven Hubbardston Nonsuch, eleven Danvers Winter 

 Sweet, and twelve Rhode Island Greenings ; most of them two years 

 from the bud, and then planted with corn, except a row of potatoes 

 on aline with the trees. In '47 and '48 the piece was planted with 

 potatoes, and the present year with corn. 



In 1847, I broke up the other acre and set out 110 Baldwins, 

 two years from the bud, and twenty-two feet distant each way, ma- 

 nured in the hill and planted with corn, except a row of potatoes by 

 each row of trees, and in 1848 and 1849, with potatoes, about eight 

 cords of common manure to the acre, spread and ploughed in. 



The present year I have set out eighteen trees, Baldwins, which 

 completes the lot. 



Every tree set out both years, lived and grew well. Many of 

 them made more wood the first year, than those of the same age left 

 in the nursery. I have lost seven trees since they were set, viz : one 

 by the oxen, four by the mice, one by the woodchucks, and one by 

 the ice, which have been replaced by other trees. 



The success which I have had in the living and growth of my 

 trees, I attribute very much to the manner in which they were taken 

 up and set out. Great care should be taken to keep every root as 

 perfect as possible when taken from the nursery, and before setting 

 out each tree should be turned up, and the end of every root of any 

 size, be cut off with a sharp knife, at an angle of about forty five 

 degrees. 



The land should be measured off and a stake put down at the 

 distance you intend they shall stand ; and which I think should net 

 exceed twenty-five feet each way. The tree should be placed upon 

 the ground and marked all round the roots, the hole dug just as deep 

 as the tree stood in the nursery, (never I think to exceed one half 

 inch deeper.) Then set the tree in its place, one man to hold it 

 steady, one in the hole to place every root, the other with a sJiovel 

 to pulverize the dirt and sift it in among the roots, while the one in 

 the hole places with his fingers every root and little fibre, in their 

 proper place ; and so continue till the hole is full, and the setting 

 is completed. Never tread the ground hard round the tree. 



