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inches of the ground. In the fall all the wood that has produced 

 fruit in the summer must be cut out, and the remaining shoots 

 shortened. At the end of five years the plantation must be destroyed 

 and replaced by a new one. 



11th. Strawberries, In the month of September I take up the 

 young runners that have formed roots, and set them out in rows 

 fourteen inches apart, in the bed where they are to remain, instead of 

 transplanting ihem in nursery beds. The ground is previously pre- 

 pared by trenching to the depth of three feet, and highly enriched. 

 The tops are top-dressed with lime, ashes and charcoal dust. 



12th. Grafes. On the 8th of March, 1842, I set one hundred 

 single eyes, of the black Hamburgh, muscat of Alexandria, Saint 

 Peter, and various other choice varieties of grapes, in thumb pots, 

 and placed them in a hot bed under double glass. They grew two 

 feet before the 8th of May, when they were removed to larger pots, 

 and put in a new hot bed in the open air under single glass. On 

 the Sth of July they averaged four feet, on the 1st of November, six 

 feet; when they were planted out in the grapery, three feet apart, in 

 a trench which w'as opened six feet wide, to the depth of three feet 

 six inches, and filled with prepared earth. The young vines were 

 immediately cut to a single eye, and during the past summer have 

 grown from twenty to twenty-four feet; the breadth of the leaves 

 varies from six to ten inches. I do not allow my vines to produce 

 fruit until the stems will measure two and a half inches in circum- 

 ference at the ground. I much prefer the lorig pruning, as it is the 

 most simple and rids the cultivator of the old wood every year. If 

 vines are pruned in April or May, they will b'eed excessively. 

 The 20th of February is in my opinion the proper time. I have a 

 native vine in my garden, at the root of which a pig was buried last 

 fall, last March it was cut to a single eye, and during the summer it 

 has £frown thirty-two feet. 



ROBERT L. PELL. 



Pelham, Ulster Co., JV. Y. Oct. Sth 1843 



List of Fruit trees on the Pelham Farm. 



APPLES. 



20,000 green and yellow Newtown 



pippins, 18 years old. 

 Esopus spitzenburgh, 

 Rhode Island greening, 

 Large yellow bow, 

 Golden pippin. 

 Fall pippin. 

 Swan apple, 

 Gilliflower, 

 Seek no further, 

 Pearmain, 

 Pound sweeting, 

 Golden russet, 



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Dowaton pippin, 



English golden pippin. 



Jersey sweet, 



Juneating, 



Golden reinette, 



Jonathan, 



Maiden's blush, 



Munster, 



Ross nonpareil, 



Summer sweet paradise, 



Sugar loaf pippin, 



Kenrick's autumn, 



King of pippins, 



Lady apple, 



