92 *' ONLIVEFENCES. 



Time. I have had much the best success when removing 

 them in early spring, with few exceptions. Young trees set in 

 the fall are liable to be thrown out by frost, and all, whether 

 large or small, often suffer injury by having their roots severe- 

 ly frozen, when the ground is bare, during our severe winters. 



J. H. ORDWAY. 



Ordway's Nursery, West Newbury, Oct. 30, 1845. 



EPHRAIM WOODSS STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Fruit Trees : 



Gentlemen, — In compliance with your request, I will give 

 you a short statement of the present condition of such pro- 

 ducts of my nursery, in Salem, as are thought to come within 

 the sphere of your observations in the performance of the duty 

 assigned you, together with a few observations concerning my 

 mode of cultivation. 



I have eleven hundred pear trees, two and three years 

 growth from the bud, mostly two, of the choicest varieties. 

 The soil is a loam, from nine to twelve inches deep, on a 

 coarse gravelly bottom. I have manured it bat once in four 

 years, and then to the amount of three cords of common barn 

 manure to the acre, which was spread on the surface, and 

 worked in with the cultivator and hoe. I have hoed the 

 ground as I would in the cultivation of corn or potatoes, so as 

 to keep it free from weeds and in good condition. 



I have over one thousand apple trees, of the most approved 

 varieties, two years old from the bud, cultivated in the same 

 way. EPHRAIM WOODS. 



Salem, Nov. 13th, 1845. 



LIVE FENCES. 



The Committee on Live Fences would Report : 



That there has been but One claimant for premium the pres- 



