112 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



but always made a fine growth, and retained, under all 

 circumstances, their rich native luxuriance. 



There are other lawns in our immediate vicinity, 

 where we have planted evergreens, and all sorts of deli- 

 cate deciduous trees, in September and November, upon 

 this system of shallow beds, with moun 's and mulch- 

 ing, without losing one tree in a thousand, and with a 

 degree of success in the growth and beauty of the trees, 

 •which rarely results from the common method of dig- 

 ging holes. 



We have now partially under our care, a pear orchard 

 of upwards of one thousand dwarf and standard trees, 

 planted shallow and well mulched, one year ago, accord- 

 ing to our advice and direction, without a particle of 

 stable manure under or about them, with a loss of only 

 two trees in a thousand ; and a finer pear orchard, of 

 the same age and size, we feel assured, has never been 

 seen in Pennsylvania. When this orchard gets into bear- 

 ing, we intend to give a full description of our entire sys- 

 tem of planting, manuring and pruning. We have, this 

 fall, planted in this same orchard, nearly three thousand 

 more pear trees, as shallow as possible, in no instance 

 thrusting the spade, in digging the holes for them, into 

 the sub-soil. The field has been thoroughly subsoiled, 

 but not trenched or underdrained. The soil is, how- 

 ever, a good one, and the subsoil is gravelly and porous. 

 As to the propriety, and even necessity, of shallow 

 planting in setting out trees, in all cases, to insure the 



