222 On Orchards, 



ed in the holes with the earth in planting, in others it 

 was thrown around the tree on the surface after plant- 

 ing. The ground remained in clover unploughed and 

 undug the whole of the following summer. The trees 

 put out ^vell the first spring, but the drought of the suc- 

 ceeding summer prevented their gi'owth, those which 

 did not perish ^vere nearly stationary. I replaced one 

 hundred and thirty of them the following fall, since 

 which I have replanted nearly one third more, and have 

 kept the ground in corn for two successive years, by 

 which means the surviving trees have perfectly recover- 

 ed, and together with the replanted trees at present ex- 

 hibit an uniform and vigorous appearance, promising 

 in every respect to be a fine orchard. 



No. VL 



In November 1805, I planted three hundred and 

 eleven trees adjoining to No. 5. The holes prepared 

 in the sam.e manner, manj^ of the trees large, transplant- 

 ed a second time ; I mJxed no stable dung with the 

 compost, which was composed of river mud and ashes 

 with a small portion of lime. This I put round the 

 trees on the surface, a waggon load to ten of them.--^- 

 The ground had been previously planted with corn. — 

 Although generally deemed an exhausting crop, I have 

 continued it in corn foi' three successive years ; ex- 

 cept part which has been constantly occupied (to adopt 

 the language of this part of New- Jersey) in a truck 

 patch. These trees have grown with a vigor I never 

 saw equalled. In two years but one has died, and that 

 Vvas lately destroyed by the field mice ; and the or^ 



