34 TRANSPLANTING. 



subsistence, and, like a Scotchman, will get a living 

 where other plants would starve. 



But trees that grow in grass-fields rarely produce 

 such fair fruit as those about which we keep the earth 

 light and well tilled. This is an important considera- 

 tion for those who raise apples for the market ; and it 

 is advisable to set our trees in straight lines, that we 

 may plough among them with as little injury as possi- 

 ble. Now you do not like to put a plough in your 

 orchard, if you can avoid it ; you fear you may bark 

 the trees ; you know ^rou will not raise half a crop of 

 corn, or of potatoes, or of grain. You therefore put a 

 little chip-dung about the roots of the tree ; and in time 

 you raise quite a hillock there, which seems to turn all 

 the moisture from the sweet heavens away from your 

 trees. This chip-stuff is the very worst article you 

 can apply. It is not only too bulky for its strength — 

 producing a bank where you would prefer a hollow — 

 but it is usually full of worms and insects, that often 

 get on and ride your tree to death. Pray let us give 

 you a little advice on this one point. It will be valua- 

 ble not only for Middlesex and for Worcester, for Essex 

 and for Norfolk, but for all New England : for the 

 United States and her Territories ; and as for the Cana- 

 das, — why, we think we would better let them man- 

 age their own affairs. Instead of planting among 

 orchard trees, and exposing them to the repeated visits 

 of the plough and hoe during summer, we plough the 

 ground about the first week in September as well as 

 we can, laying all the vegetable growth beneath the 

 sod : put on a few loads of fine manure, if we have it 

 to spare ; if not, we do without it, as it is not our object 

 now to get a great growth of grass. We then roll the 

 furrows down close, harrow, and sow our seed as in 

 other cases where are no trees. Six or eight pounds 

 of clover-seed should be reserved for an acre, to be 

 thrown on some time in winter. Nothing but herds- 

 grass and red-top are sown in autumn. Clover is apt 



