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always weaken the trees, and when fol- 

 lowed bj a severe winter they succumb 

 at once ; in that case we must have 

 young trees to take their places, when 

 but a single crop of the fruit is lost. 



Suppose B. planted a thousand trees 

 in the spring of '59, and that they be- 

 gan to bear in '60, giving four crops, 

 the last a full one. We will also sup- 

 pose the borer to have damaged them 

 to some extent, then came the hard 

 winter of '64 ; the trees began to leaf 

 out in a sickly manner and are then at- 

 tacked with the curl, and of course die. 

 The orchard is ruined and must be dug 

 up. In the spring of '65 B. plants 

 again, and has a crop in '67. By this 

 method he will have peaches, say three 

 out of six years. "We ask our readers 

 if this is not the usual practice. 



Now we will suppose K. planted 200 

 trees in each of the years '5S, '59, '60, 

 '61 and '62, the last planting would be 

 two years old, and those of '61 three 

 years old, neither of which are seriously 

 injured, his prospects for a crop in '65 

 are good ; and as but few peaches can 

 thus be grown for want of trees, he will 

 get double the usual price. Now, is it 

 not evident that K. with the same out- 

 lay will make more money out of his 

 peach orchard than B. ? If we want 

 peaches we must plant trees annually, 

 and we will have fruit on an average 

 of live years in six. In the winter of 

 '56 the peach trees were then more or 

 less killed, but the two and three year 

 old orchards were uninjured, and those 

 bore seven consecutive crops, but are 

 now killed. We can point to two or- 

 chards in this county that are in this 

 condition. Hereafter we shall be par- 

 ticular to plant out a small orchard ev- 

 ery spring, and thus have a young or- 

 chard to rely upon. We have, to some 



extent, but not as fully as we should 

 have done. The necessity of this course 

 is now patent to us, and we shall be 

 direlect to our duty if the spring is al- 

 lowed to pass without the planting. 



PLUMS 



Show about half a crop, but there is so 

 few trees that no very accurate estimate 

 can be had. We shall now risk a large 

 plum orchard to be set out next autumn, 

 in which the Lombard will figrure 

 largely. , ^^ 



APEICOTS AlTD ALMONDS .; 



Are seriously damaged, and the re- 

 marks on the peach will apply to both 

 of them. - 



, CHEERIES. 



The May Cherry (Kentish of Down- 

 ing) shows about one-third of the usual 

 bloom, and will probably give half a 

 crop. The May Duke, Keine Hor- 

 tense, Bauman's May, and a dozen 

 other kinds of sweet cherries six years 

 planted, do not show a single blossom. 

 The English Morello always blooms 

 full, but thus far has not held its fruit 

 satisfactorily ; the same is the case with 

 May Duke. We have one tree of May 

 Duke, planted in the spring of '46, that 

 always bloomed full, but in all that 

 time has not matured a bushel of fruit, 

 though nearly a foot in diameter ; it is 

 now nearly dead, having been on the 

 sick list five or six years. 



GEAPBS. 



All grapes that were laid down and 

 covered promise an abundant crop, but 

 unfortunately, as Dr. Shroeder says, we 

 are a set of careless Americans. As 

 the Dr. has taken a vow not to again 

 follow in the footsteps of his adopted 

 brethren, we propose to join him and 

 not again leave our grapes out in the 

 cold. Of grapes, more hereafter, as we 



