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cheap, the whole fish can be used, putting about half a peck around 

 each vine, and under the surface. In putting out trellis, take locust 

 or cedar posts eight feet long ; at distances of ten feet apart, insert 

 the posts two feet deep. Put a strong nail near the top of the posts, 

 another three feet from the ground, and another midway between the 

 two. Take strong iron wire, No. 11, (one degree soft is best,) fasten 

 ii firmly when starting, and then make one turn round each nail, and 

 so on till the trellis is finished. This makes a firm trellis, and at as 

 small an expense as any other method. The air, so necessary to the 

 perfection of fruit, has a free circulation, and the wire is the most 

 convenient of all contrivances for the small tendrils to attach them- 

 selves. 



Preserving Fruit through the Winter. 



All winter fruit should be gathered by hand, and taken to an open 

 barn, shed, or other out-door building, where they siiould be care- 

 fully spread out, not more than seven or eight inches deep, where 

 the fruit will go through an operation of sweating. When tliey have 

 become dry, put them in dry clean flour barrels, or any clean casks. 

 When put in cellars, in large quantities, the cellar should be opened 

 in moderate weather, every few days. 



To keep apples with success, it is only necessary, not to keep them 

 too warm — on the contrary, keep as cool as may be, without danger 

 of freezing. Should any person wish to keep a few choice Newtown 

 pippins during the whole summer, put them in barrels, packed in 

 perfectly dry sand, and keep as above. 



Exportation of Fruit. 



In my opinion, the importance of growing fruit, as an article of 

 export, has been most generally overlooked in this country. It is 

 true the fruit dealers of Boston have been shipping apples and cran- 

 berries to Europe for many years ; and of late, apples have been 

 shipped to Calcutta. There is no doubt that quinces, and the finest 

 quality of winter pears, could be shipped to some parts of Europe 

 with the same success as our other fruits. The business being new 

 in this section of the country, I propose saying something relating 

 to the export of fruit, for the benefit of new beginners. 



All fruits sent abroad should be of the very first quality. The 

 Boston dealers ship their celebrated Baldwin apples. The most va- 

 luable variety in this vicinity, is the Newtown pippins, as they keep 

 sound, and retain their flavor late in the spring, when most other 

 varieties are gone. A distinguished horticulturist of New York, 

 ships his apples to London in the following manner: After being 

 carefully picked by hand, and placed in baskets, they are carried by 

 men and put in an open barn, for the purpose of sweating 15 or 20 



