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NURSERY. 

 STATEMENT OF xMELZAR HUNT. 



jNTy Nursery contains one hundred and fifty apple trees of different 

 Tarieties — the Baldwin, Greening, Roxbury Russet, Hubbardston 

 Nonsuch, Belle-flower, Winte? Sweet, Russet, &,c., &c. Most of 

 them are three years old from the bud, or graft. 



My method of raising trees is, to sow the seed in the fall, in drills 

 — the rows three feet apart and the trees six inches apart in the rows. 

 In April, after they have grown one year from the bud, I transplanted 

 them, setting them two feet apart in the rows. The budding is done, 

 when the trees are of a suitable size, which is generally the second 

 year. The ground on which the trees are grown is spaded every 

 spring, and hoed as often as necessary to keep it from' weeds. I cul- 

 tivate some other ci"op between the rows of trees, either carrots- or 

 potatoes. 



Sunderland, Oct. 15, 1854. 



PEACH ORCHARD. 

 STATEMENT OF DANIEL COWLES. 



I have about forty peach trees. The principal part of them were 

 grown from peach stones, that I obtained of a grocer in Springfield, 

 in 1839. He had saved them from a few very choice lots of peaches 

 that had been brought in to hira-. They were planted in the fall of 

 1839 ; and in the spring of 184'2, I set them about the sides and ter- 

 races of my garden, where I thought they would do the least damage. 

 I have practiced putting ashes about the roots, occasionally, in the 

 fore part of the season. The greater part of the trees bear the early 

 yellow peach. Some bear a peach, very much resembling the Early 

 Crawford, and there are three or four varieties of later peaches. I 

 have a few young trees of different varieties — the snow peach, the 

 blood peach, &.C., &e. My trees have borne well, every year, since 

 they were three years old, excepting one ; but not as well this season 

 as last. I have had this season from fifteen to twenty bushels. The 

 peaches were not as large and good as usual, this year, owing, I 

 think, to the dry weather. 



Hadley, September, 1854. 



