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the winter ; for they, like the Oherokees, are not for 

 vohintary immigration in the midst of snows. Now 

 your trees are well set. They have not only put out 

 the leaf, but their limbs have extended — if you saw 

 to the work yourself — from half a foot to a foot each 

 way. They will need but very little trimming this 

 second season, if you trimmed them a little on setting 

 them. They must have top. Their leaves are their 

 lungs ; and a good proportion of leaves are indicative 

 of good health, as good lungs are in animals. What 

 will you do with your trees this second summer ? Will 

 you suffer the grass and weeds to draw away all mois- 

 ture from the neighborhood of the roots, and occupy 

 the space intended for them ? We trust not. Keep 

 your land in tillage three or four years at the least. 

 You may raise exhausting crops, if you will apply 

 manure ; you may raise beans or drilled turnips, with- 

 out manuring this season ; you may sow tbrnips, 

 broad-cast, as late as the first of July, without injury 

 to the trees ; in fine, you may plant almost any thing 

 among your trees, and they will grow quite as fast as 

 they should grow, provided always you keep up good 

 tillage. 



On the first of October, in the fourth year, we will 

 call on you — -in case you took your trees from our 

 nursery — and help you pick half a dozen barrels of 

 Avinter apples from an acre of trees. If this happens 

 not to be a bearing year, we shall wait one year longer, 

 and then give you a friendly call, and see that you 

 have appointed some tivo-legged animal to trim, in 

 preference to such as sometimes, for want of proper 

 instruments, cut a little too close, and do not leave the 

 body quite so smooth as it might be left with a knife. 



More may be said next week on this subject, if you 

 will draw your chair up close, so that this everlasting 

 clatter on the pavements shall not interrupt our con- 

 verse. Will you call at our office again 1 



