5>J(i THE FRUIT GARDEN. [Oct. 



Planting Fruit Trees. 



Towards the latter end of this month you may safely transplant 

 most sorts of fruit trees, but particularly such kinds as shall have 

 by that time shed their leaves. This may be done to advantage 

 during the entire of next month if the season continues open, pro- 

 vided the ground in which you plant be dry and does not lodge 

 water in the winter months; and likewise that sufficient pains be 

 taken to make each tree fast in its place by nailing or binding it 

 up in such a manner as not to be rocked about by the winds; 

 otherwise spring planting, if done early in March, will be more 

 successful, particularly for the peach, nectarine and almond. 



Note. — In the more southern states of the Union the planting of 

 the more hardy kinds of fruit and other trees should be completed 

 before the end of January, on account of the early vegetation in 

 those regions. 



If the borders wherein trees are to be planted, either for the wall 

 or espalier be new, they should be trenched at least two feet deep 

 if the good soil admits thereof; but if not, they should be made of 

 that depth by adding thereto a sufficiency of good mellow fertile 

 soil, such as fresh surface loam, &c; this should be worked to the 

 depth of two feet, at least, with the soil of the border, and it would 

 be of great advantage to add some good rotten dung previous to the 

 trenching. But if a sufficient quantity of fresh soil cannot be con- 

 veniently obtained for the whole, you may sink one, two, or three 

 wheelbarrows full, together with some rotten dung in the place 

 where each tree is to be planted. 



However, where the ground is already of a good quality, as that 

 of a common kitchen garden, &'c, the above assistance will not be 

 necessary, as trees will prosper sufficiently well in any soil that is 

 productive of good garden vegetables. 



As to aspect, your latest ripening fruits, particularly late peaches, 

 should have a warm exposure, and also some of the earliest ripen- 

 ing of the various kinds of fruit, on account of having them in per- 

 fection at an early period. For the method of planting, and proper 

 distances, &c. see page 220. 



Planting Gooseberries. 



Towards the latter end of this month, or early in November, is 

 the best time in the year to plant trees of this delicious and very 

 valuable fruit. 



You may plant them around the borders of the best quarters of 

 your kitchen garden about two feet and a half or three feet from 

 the walks, and from si\ to eight feet distant from one another. Or 

 they may be planted in continued plantations, the rows from eight 

 to ten feet asunder, ami the plants six or seven feet apart in the 

 rows. In the latter case the ground between the rows may be 

 occupied with winter Bpinage, corn salad, lettuces, and winter 

 cresses; and in spring and summer with rows of salading of various 

 kinds, dwarf peas and beans, or any other low growing crops; but 



