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chard is allowed to be the handsomest in this part of 



the countr) \ 



Ko. VII. 



In November 1805, at the same time with the pre^ 

 ceding experiment, I planted two hundred and fifty- 

 two trees on a com fallow ; the holes prepared as .in 

 No. 6. I applied stable manure, hauled out the pre- 

 ceding spring, in about the same proportion around 

 the trees. In the following spring the ground which 

 was in high order, having been manured with about 

 three hundred bushels of leached ashes per acre, was 

 sown with oats : the oats grew finely, and the trees 

 put out very beautifully. They gi'ew well for some 

 time, but as the oats by their growth exhausted the 

 moisture from the earth (which had not been dug) the 

 trees withered, and by the time the oats ripened about 

 forty of the trees had perished. As soon as the oats 

 were cut I had the ground ploughed. This checked 

 the destruction of the trees : those which had not pre- 

 viously perished soon recovered in some degree a 

 healthful appearance, and took a second growth in the 

 autumn. The trees replanted and the survivors of the 

 original plantation have been dug round twice in the 

 last season, and although the ground has been sown 

 with wheat and is now in clover, they generally look 

 well and promising, but in no degree to be compar- 

 ed Vvdth those manured with the compost of mud, ash- 

 cs and lime, and kept under cultivation. 



No, VIII. 

 In October 1806, I planted part of an orchard oftwr^, 

 hundred and ten trees, which I completed in the follow 



