On Peach Trees, 



great crop every j^ear since, which increases with their 

 size, and they are now large trees. Since the first year 

 I have had the ground annually dug about four feet in 

 circumference round them, and I do not find the worms 

 have attacked them yet ; from accident two trees were 

 neglected for two years after I limed the first, they 

 scarcely bore a leaf; the ground was so hard as to be 

 impenetrable to the roots. I have had lime thrown 

 round them since, and they have recovered and borne 

 some fine peaches, and will I believe grow to a good 

 size ; the success of this experiment having convinced 

 me that I could successfully raise peach trees on grass 

 ground, I have been induced to plant out upwards of 

 eight hundred in a field that will be alternately in grain 

 and grass, some of which bore very fine fruit last sum- 

 mer. Although the ground has been in clover since the 

 trees were planted, they have a very healthy appearance, 

 and bid fair to be very durable, but that, time only can 

 ascertain, for my own part I am perfectly satisfied if 

 they bring me only four good crops, for the trees are 

 then worth nearly as much for fire wood as I pay for 

 the young ones. I would recommend digging round 

 the trees once a year it mixes the lime with the earth, 

 much to the improvement of the soil ; fresh slacked 

 lime will not answer, as I have known a young orchard 

 entirely destroyed by it, which has caused an opinion 

 to prevail that lime in any way is prejudicial, and I was 

 cautioned by old farmers from using it; but in the wav 

 I used it, after it had been deprived of its excessive heat 

 by a long exposure to the weather, I am very certain 

 of its producing the most beneficial effects on all kinds 

 of trees. I have applied it to upwards of fifteen hun- 



