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ing December ; the ground prepared and manured with 

 ashes for a corn crop ; the trees planted and manured 

 with stable dung hauled out the preceding spring. In 

 the spring of 1807, the ground was sown with oats. All 

 the trees planted in December, and dug after the oats 

 had attained to some size have gi'own well. Of those 

 planted on the 24th of October, one third part perished 

 in the following summer, which I attribute to their be- 

 ing transplanted before the sap had ceased to flow.— 

 This remark applies particulai'ly to the Hewe's Crab, 

 which continues to grow later in the fall than any other 

 apple tree. Some kinds did not suffer at all, while the 

 greater part of others perished. The comparative ef- 

 fects of the dung and mud are observable in this plan» 

 tation. 



No, IX. 



In the month of October 1806, at the same time 

 witli the preceding experiment, I planted about one 

 hundred and eighty apple trees on a piece of ground 

 ploughed for, but not sowed with, oats the preceding- 

 spring. The holes were dug, and the trees manured 

 ^^'ith stable dung, precisely in the same manner with 

 No. 8. The soil was much sandier than either of the 

 fields mentioned in numbers 7 and 8. The ground was 

 full of weeds and very rough. In the following spring 

 it vvas manured with ashes, and planted in corn. For- 

 ty of the trees had been procured from a distant nurse- 

 ry, the soil of .which was so stiff as to cause much inju- 

 ry to the roots in digging or rather grubbing them ; 

 they were extremely short so as to leave me little ex- 

 pectation of their gTOVving in my light soil. Notwith- 

 standing all these obstacles the ti'ces though planted on 



