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that no part is lost ; — by the consideration that one seedling 

 plant thus watched and reared for the orchard, is worth 

 more money to any man who wants good fruit, than a whole 

 wagon load of diseased roots, dug up from among wild 

 hedges and wet waste lands, grafted and planted in mellow 

 nursery ground, to cheat the honest, confiding purchaser, 

 first, out of his money ; next, out of his labor, and lastly, out 

 of all hope of raising fruit. 



But let it be remembered that the labor bestowed on the 

 nursery plant, large as it may appear, is all irrecoverably 

 lost, unless proper ground be selected for planting out the 

 Peach Orchard. This fact has been long since abundantly 

 proved by the utter failure of thousands who have attempted 

 to rear this fruit, even from the best of seedling stock, planted 

 in unfriendly soil. Well tested experiments effectually show 

 that dry, elevated, and rolling ground, is not only the most 

 inviting, but the most safe and the most certain. And should 

 the surface chance to be quite broken and quite rocky, these 

 form no serious objections. 



Much of the success in the cultivation of this fruit, is ge- 

 nerally supposed to depend upon the direction of the descent 

 of the ground of the Peach Orchard ; but the point of declina- 

 tion, is not in fact of any great moment. Experience proves 

 that the north and west pitch, will, in ordinary seasons, pro- 

 duce the greatest amount of fruit ; while the southern and 

 eastern pitch, bring the earliest and richest flavored fruit. 

 Deep valley grounds should be avoided by every possible 

 means as damp and unhealthy, but elevated sites may range 

 from fifty to two hundred and fifty feet above the fair level 



