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ingenuity enongli to whittle a wedge. Take a few of the clons of 

 one kind at a time ; cut the brush or grafts Into pieces about five 

 inches long ; then cut the clon off at the root, and split it nicely 

 through the center for about one inch and a half. Take a graft, and, 

 beginning at a bud, make a wedge from one Inch to an inch and a 

 half long, with the Inner edge a little the thinnest ; the bud being on 

 the outer edge. Insert the wedge in the split root, taking care to let 

 the bark of the wedge and root exactly come together, and with the 

 wax, melted at hand, cover the split well ; in fact, hermetically seal 

 the wound ; set out In the deep rows as soon as finished, and cover, 

 leaving about two inches of the graft above ground. They should be 

 set about six inches apart, cultivate well, and in one year many of 

 tlicm will be ready to transplant to your proposed orchard ; and all of 

 them will be ready in two years. The ground occupied in raising 

 them will not be much ; say you have four rows across one end of 

 your garden, ninety feet long, that will give 180 trees to the row, 

 and 720 in all ; or, if the rows are only thirty feet long, they will 

 raise 240 trees. 



Mr. ]Sr. C. Meeker. — To this we add, that if the ground is rich, and 

 the culture good, the trees may be budded In the fall of the first year. 

 We would advise any one who would grow fruit trees, to get The 

 American Fruit Cidturist, by J. J. Thomas. It will be worth a 

 hundred times its cost. 



Forest-Teee Planting. 



Mr. Samuel Edwards, Bureau Co., La Moille, 111. — I am glad to see 

 the interest manifested in timber planting by the correspondents of the 

 Farmers' Club. There is no question of more importance claiming 

 the attention of our people, particularly on the prairies. In 1801, 

 Henry Root, of Cayuga Co., N. Y., planted a nut of black walnut, 

 and eight or ten years since he cut down the tree, three feet in diame- 

 ter. He lives in the enjoyment of a hale old age, regretting that he 

 did not plant acres Instead of a single nut. The white maple is 

 probably the most valuable of all tlie rapid growing trees. Lombardy 

 poplar grows readily f^om cuttings a foot long, planted early in the 

 spring, in well prepared soil, and the dirt pressed firmly at the lower 

 end, at least two-thirds in the ground, as do all the poplars, including 

 Cottonwood and the willows. Silver poplar is valuable as a street 

 tree, and for play grounds of school-houses. Black walnut, butter- 

 nut, chestnut, hickory nut and the oaks are propagated by getting 



