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there. The stirring of your grounds and killing your 

 grass will produce fairer fruit than all the trimming 

 you can devise. We have now a tall apple-tree by the 

 road side. Its fruit is the Newton pippin. It bears 

 every year from four to fourteen barrels of good fruit. 

 If this tree had been headed down, we could not hope 

 for half that quantity from the tree. We are much 

 pleased to see, in a late number of the Albany Culti- 

 vator — one of the most able and practical papers in 

 the country — an article on trimming trees that very 

 nearly coincides with our views. 



In orchards we commend straight rows, for we can 

 use the plough with more ease ; but this is not the 

 most essential item in setting out trees. Mr. Wright 

 was once famous for straight rows. He would at any 

 sacrifice put them in straight lines. 



He once commenced setting a row, and, when he 

 had planted a couple, he went in each direction, shut 

 up one eye, like a marksman, and, after taking most 

 critical sight at the range of the trees, observed, with 

 much satisfaction, '' There, I have set two in a line." 



The best wash we ever tried for young trees is 

 strong lie : two pounds of potash will make near a 

 pailful ; and this may be applied by means of a swab, 

 made by nailing a piece of cloth to a handle. A paint- 

 er's brush is more handy. 



ON MANURES, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE SOIL. 



Manures of this sort, viz. the excrement of animals, 

 if not applied to the soil before fermentation takes 

 place, should be mixed with a very large proportion of 

 matter that will absorb the liquid portions and retain 

 the salts until they are wanted for the growing vegeta- 



