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treatment of the vine is plain stable manure, 

 se prnning, and shelter in the winter by laying the 

 e on the groimil, covered with a few corn-stalks, 

 was a beautiful sight to see that vine bearing from 

 rtv to forty clusters, each about nine inches long, 

 npact and well-formed, the fruit large and resem- 

 ig the Sweetwater, with a slight bloom and fine 

 ^[r. Brex.van informs me that he has a few 

 es for sale from cuttings of last year. 



Yours truly, F. W. Teakman. 

 Iamilton, C. W. 



STBAWEEBBIES. 



Ib. Editor: — In the spring of 1851 I bought 

 strawberry plants of three varieties — Royal, 

 nmoulh. Black Prince aniffhite Bush, which were 

 in rows three feet apart, sis inches in the row. 

 ulched the best with saw-dust four inches deep, 

 kept the runners trimmed off after they had done 

 ring. I gathered from my bed in 1852, 36 quarts; 

 854, from Royal and Monmouth 26 quarts, of the 

 ck Prince 18 quarts, and JHiite Bush 2-1 quarts; 

 11 68 quarts. I have been well paid for all my 

 ble. The berries were very large, and uniform 

 ze. G. J. Ellerby. 



"iao.ara Co., N. Y. 



^o it will be with all who will take a little pains to 

 ure choice varieties of fruit. When commenc- 

 their cultivation it costs no more time and labor 

 et the best and grow the best, than poor kinds, 

 ling as it does the first of our fruits, its sub-acid 

 y is grateful to the palate and conducive to 

 th. In another column will be found a brief 

 ce of the method of cultivation. — Ed.] 



PLANTING OKCHABDS OF APPLE TEEES. 



7ii7.s an orchard is to be planted, or where there 

 many rows, the quincunx arrangement is always 

 best, because by that mode, each tree is equi-dis- 



from its neighbors, and each has an equal por- 



of air and light ; it is also the best for lining in 

 directions. The rectangular mode of planting 

 ;. 2) is only fit for avenues. The quincunx ar- 

 ;ement is based on an equilateral triangle, at each 

 le of which a tree is planted. To trace out on 



ground the lines for the quincunx, which must 

 be confounded with the rhomb, we iirst form a 

 ! hue by means of poles, or with a line; on this 



pegs are fixed at the places where we intend to 

 It, at the distance determined on, say at 42 feet, 

 jrder to mark out the second line, we take two 

 isures, each 42 feet long, placing the end of one 

 .hem against the first jjeg in the first line, as at A, 



the end of the second against the second peg, B; 

 then bring the two measures together at the other 



ends, and a peg is put iu at the point where they 

 meet, at C. 'I'he three pegs thus form an equilateral 

 triangle. This o]jcration is repeated at the other end 

 of the first line, and the two pegs last put in give the 

 second line, which is then filled up like the first with 

 pegs, 42 feet apart. The whole of the ground being 

 thus marked out, we obtain the result shown in fig. 1. 

 Each tree is equi-distant from the six adjacent trees 

 surrounding it, which can not be the case either in 

 the rectangular or in the oblique square form. 

 Fig. 1. 



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PLANTATION IN (JDINCUNX. 



In the quincunx mode of planting, it will some- 

 times happen that the distance between the rows 

 running parallel to A D is determined; and some- 

 times the distance of the trees in these rows, as A B, 

 is fixed. It is necessary to know, from having one of 

 these distances given, how to find exactly the other. 

 We must repeat the word^-exactly; for, supposing 

 the row should contain as many as 50 trees, and the 

 distances A B, or C P, should be only half an inch 

 wrong, some trees, or even rows, would be two feet - 

 out of their right position The trees could easily 

 be placed so as to line in one direction; but this be- 

 ing done, it wou'd be seen that they were, in conse- 

 quence, put quite as much out of line in another di- 

 rection. Stake after stake may be altered, to an 

 indefinite period, without forming corrert line-, if a 

 wrong principle has been adopted at st-.iitinir. To 

 prevent such confusion, to save time and expense, and 

 to make sure of staking out the whole satisfactorily, 

 the followmg will prove very useful: 



