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Island Greening. Hubbardston's Nonesuch, Jonathan, Wine Sap, 

 and some Roxbiiry Russets. There may be some other varie- 

 ties Hke ]\IcIntosh Red, Sutton Beauty, W'agener, and Wal- 

 bridge. that will do well here, but wait until further tested. Set 

 only those varieties you knozi' succeed here. I have often been 

 asked if it would not pay to set the Lady Apple ? They bring $10 

 per barrel ; or the Esopus Spitzenburg, they are quoted $5 per 

 barrel, when Baldwins are only $2. My answer would be "no." 

 There is no money in growing these varieties. The Lady Apple 

 would not be selling for $10 per barrel or the Spitzenburg for $5 

 per barrel, if they could be raised as easily as the Baldwin or 

 Rhode Island Greening. The fact that they bring these prices 

 shows that they are not easily grown. Ten dollars can be made 

 growing Baldwins to one dollar raising Lady apples. 



Fourth. Get your trees where you are a mind to, only be sure 

 to get good healthy trees, and free from San Jose scale, with 

 tops formed up four to five feet in height. For your trees dig 

 the holes (in this previously prepared ground, as before noted) 

 two feet wide and twenty inches deep ; placing all the surface 

 soil in a pile by itself, and the yellow or subsoil by itself. In 

 setting the trees, be careful not to plant them but little, if any, 

 deeper than they were growing in the nursery rows. Fill the 

 hole with the black or surface soil, until high enough to receive 

 the tree. Spread out the roots, and as the surface soil is thrown 

 in upon the roots, work the dirt thoroughly in among them with 

 your fingers, lifting up the upper roots until all is filled under, 

 so that the roots may all lay a little slanting, and each encircled 

 with the soil, which should be pressed firmly in among the roots, 

 as the hole is being filled up. After the surface soil taken from 

 the hole is all used, then take a shovelful here and there about 

 the field until the hole is completely filled, and the trees firmly 

 set. The yellow dirt from digging the hole can be spread about 

 the field. The tree then has a fine bed in which to start and 

 grow. The soil being plowed previously and well fertilized, that 

 which is put into the hole in setting the trees contains all the 

 plant food necessary for the tree the first year. I speak of this 

 careful planting, because it is very important, so the first year's 

 growth will be a good one. If a tree starts off well and makes 

 a fine growth the first year, the foundation is well laid for the 

 fourth year's crop of fruit. 



