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deep planting, and the use of liighlj stimulating ma- 

 nures, for pear trees on good soils. He manures his 

 own pear trees with old compost of peat and manure 

 every year, applying it in the fall." 



Thomas Meehan, Esq., the talented and highly 

 practical editor of the Gardener's Monthly also en- 

 dorses our views on the necessity of keeping the roots 

 of fruit trees and vines as near the surface of the ground 

 as possible, as will be seen by the remarks which he 

 appended to our article on the shallow planting of 

 trees, which we take the liberty to insert in this Ap- 

 pendix. 



P. B. Mead, Esq., the present editor of the Ilorticul- 

 tiirist, in a valuable article on the causes of pear blight, 

 in the number for February, 1860, gives the result of 

 fifteen years' experience in pear culture, proving that 

 deep planting is fatal to the dwarf pear, while under 

 what may be called surface planting, the trees were 

 successful. 



Here, then, we have the President and Secretary of 

 the American Pomological Society, the editors of the 

 two leading horticultural journals in America, and the 

 principal nurseryman in the Union, all expressing views 

 similar to our own, on the evils of deep planting and 

 heavy manuring for fruit trees ; and we think we may 

 therefore fairly claim, that if we are considered by some 

 persons a little radical in our positions, we are not, at 

 any rate, a positive pomological heretic. 



We now copy from the Gardener's Monthly , one of 



