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feet wide and as many long and two feetdeep. The 
advantages of these will abundantly repay the extra 
labor they require, as we find by M. Chalumeau’s ex- 
periments on peach trees, from which we make the 
following extract: “Four peach trees resembling 
each other, as to size and vigor of growth, as much 
as possible, were planted. No. 1, in a hole three 
feet square: No. 2, in a hole two feet square, and 
Nos, 3 and 4, in wholes eighteen inches square. The 
soil and exposition oh ag No. 1 has every year 
given the most abundant crops, and the relative sizes 
of the trees now areas follows: the stem of No. 1, 
18 feet high and eight inches in circumference; that 
of No. 2, 9 feet high and 5 1-2 inches in circumfe- 
rence; No. 3, 6 feet high and 3 inches & lines in cir- 
cumference, and No. 4, 5 1-2 feet high and 3 inches 
in circumference.” Here isa difference between 
the largest and smallest of 5 inches in circumference 
and 12 1-2 feet in height—a most decisive proof of 
the advantages of trenching.(1) 
When the holes are thus provided, and at a dis- 
tance not less than 30 feet from each other, and a por- 
tion of the soil (mixed with marle, the mud of ponds 
or bog-earth) returned to them, you may then begin 
to take up your young trees from the nursery, and 
in doing this you must be careful not to wound or 
otherwise injure their roots, or their bark ; nor must 
they suffer any topping or pruning. ‘Three hands 
are necessary to planting; one to place. and allign 
(1) The apple, the pear, and the cherry, occupying more room than the eer re- 
quire proportionate trenches, 
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