" OKCHAEDS. 



In regard to the danger of making tlie .apple tree 

 grow too rapidly, particularly those varieties which are 

 adapted to our climate, we apprehend that all fear in 

 that respect is well nigh groundless. The object of the 

 orchardist should be to obtain trees large enough to 

 produce something worth harvesting before they begin 

 to bear fruit. What he wants in the first place is a 

 good sked tree; and there need be no fear that the Bald- 

 win, R. I. Greening, Roxbury Russett, Hubbardston, 

 Peck's Pleasant, Gravenstein, Porter, William's and such 

 like kinds will grow too fast. The subscriber has an 

 orchard, and there are others in this vicinity similar, 

 the trees of which were set out only ten, eleven or twelve 

 years ago, and this season many of them have borne 

 four or five barrels of large, fair fruit, and at the same 

 time have made a growth at the end of the limbs of 

 from one to two feet. The trunks of some of them are 

 more than tvv^o feet in circumference, and the extremity 

 of the branches of the few that were planted only 

 twenty-one feet apart already touch each other, and to 

 the eye of the pom legist they present an appearance of 

 healthfulness and vigor delightful to behold. The trees 

 in this orchard were not allowed to bear fruit for the 

 first seven or eight years after being set in the ground; 

 the soil has been in constant cultivation with some hoed 

 crop, receiving only a very moderate application of 

 stable manure spread upon the surface before plowing, 

 together with such a quantity of muck, ashes, old plaster? 

 bones, &c., as could be obtained without too much 

 expense, the amount of the whole being quite ^mall. 

 The crops of fruit that these trees are sure to bear every 

 year, or alternate year, will in the future retard their 



