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mers of our countr}\ If my exertions can in any de- 

 gi'ee add to the numerous inducements which already 

 exist, to urge our landed gentlemen to improve their 

 estates by plantations of the finer kinds of table and li- 

 quor fruits, I shall be amply rewarded for the time and 

 tnoney I have expended in the pursuit. 



Experiment No. I. 

 In the fall of 1794 — 5, I commenced the plantation 

 of an orchard on a good loamy soil and in a favourable 

 situation. Being a novice in the business, and having 

 no correct information, for at that time a young or- 

 chard w^as a perfect novelty in my neighbourhood ; the 

 holes w^ere dug very deep and narrow, with the mistak- 

 en expectation of its being necessary to support the 

 trees. The ground was for several years kept in clo- 

 ver, and part of it being rather stiff, the natural green 

 grass prevailed over the clover, so as to injure the trees 

 iextremely. The trees grew slowly ; many of them 

 have since been taken up and replaced by others plant- 

 ed in shallower and wider holes ; the latter plantations 

 have gained fast upon the first ; and since I have had 

 the ground around the trees dug or ploughed, the whole 

 orchard containing about three hundred and forty trees, 

 grows vigorously, and has an uniform appearance. 



jYo, II. 



In the fall of 1802, I began another orchard, which 

 in the two following seasons was enlarged to about three 

 hundred and forty trees. These trees were large and 

 vigorous. The holes Avere dug wide, and the ground 

 around them manured highly with stable dmig the fol= 



