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allow any thing to grow under his trees. He leaves a fallow plot under 

 each tree. His orchard contains the clioicest varieties of fruit. We con- 

 gratulate Mr. btebbins on possessing so fine an orchard. Your committee 

 lelt, hardly knowing which to admire most, Mr. Stebbins himself as an ac- 

 complished and gentlemanly farmer, his superior orchard, or his model farm. 

 We advise every person, who wants to raise an orchard, to visit his prem- 



ORCHARD OF GEORGE CHANDLER. 



My orchard, in Belchertown, consists of eightv-one trees, which bear the 

 Jollowing varieties, viz. : Baldwin, 64 ; Porter, 2 ; Hubbardston Nonsuch, 



i ^"^avenstein, 1 ; Sops of Wine, 1 ; Newtown Pippin, 2 ; Roxbury Rus- 

 set, 4 ; Greening, 1 ; Northern Spy, 2 ; Ladies Sweeting, 2. The land, on 

 which this orchard stands, is a gravelly loam. The trees were set in the 

 spring ot 1849. They were then two years old from the bud. I set them, 

 mtle, it any deeper than they stood in the nursery. I dug a hole sufficient- 

 ly large to admit the longest roots and about ten or twelve inches deeper 

 than the lowest roots, I then put in a few shovels of rich loam and filled 

 up around the trees with the dirt thrown out, taking particular pains in 

 spreacimg the roots and small fibres. I have washed them, once a year, 

 with a solution of potash-water, composed of one pound of potash to about 

 five quarts of water. The land, on which two-thirds of the trees stand, I 

 have kept plowed and have taken a crop from it, annually. I have spread 

 on manure, every spring, since the trees were set, with two exceptions, and 

 plowed in. The remaining trees stand on sward land, and have been 

 manured but little. I generally raise the earth around the latter, six or 

 eight inches, late in the fall, to prevent the mice trom girdling, and level 

 the sa^me in the spring • keeping the soil light and loose. Some of my trees 

 are m bearing condition and some of them bear abundantly. 



ORCHARD OF PARSONS WARNER. 



Mr. Warner has a beautiful orchard in Sunderland, containing one hun- 

 dred and twelve trees. It stands upon a plot of ground on the bank of 

 Connecticut river, a deep sandy loam. The trees are very thrifty, and will 

 soon be in full bearing. They were set out in 1848-9. Mr. Warner culti- 

 vates the land, on which his orchard stands. This year he has raised, 

 among his trees, a heavy crop of broom-corn. We should think broom-corn 

 vpould shade a young orchard too much, and have a tendency to thicken th& 

 tops of the trees and make them grow too compact, 



STATEMENT OF JOSIAH AYRES. 



_ Apple seed should be planted in the fall, in land well manured and deep 

 tilled. When the shoots come up in the spring, cultivate with care, strip- 

 ping ofiF the leaves one foot from the ground. When one year old, trans- 

 plant them in rows at a proper distance. As soon as large enough, bud 

 them near the ground, with buds taken from good bearing trees. ° When 

 large enough to transplant, prepare holes, at least four feet in diameter, and 

 three feet deep ; two feet thereof thoroughly mix with compost ; then trans- 

 plant with great care ; set the trees about the same depth that they stood 



