ORCHARD. 
without leaving a ftump, or improper wound: and as it is 
effential ee — branch be cut perfeétly clofe and {mooth, 
he ufe and afterwards {moothed over the faw-cut 
eee a knife, immediately applying his medicated tar to the 
he medicated tar : oa of half an ounce of 
cape fublimate, cara nd put into 
wound to beal. But o ompotion directed by Mr. For- 
— is probably much 
ading down old eo apple. pli ia the fake of 
floping manner, to carry o 
rounding the edges. The orchardift may begin at the lower 
branches, cutting juft above the lower bark, and proceed- 
cut t 
tree san repae 
» produce more a 
finer fruit than a maiden tree that ae been eines pees 3 
of twenty years. 
r. Marfhall remarks, in his. 4 Rural oie at of Glou- 
cefterthire and Herefordfhiregg that {pring frofts are an 
enemy, againft which, perhaps, it is sien difficult to guard 
orchard trees. ry frofts are obferved to have no other 
effets than keeping the bloffoms — confequently, are 
frequently ferviceable to  fruit-tre wet frofts, 
amely, fr fter rain or a foggy air, and before the trees 
hazy fhower in 
the evening was fucceeded by a fmart froft: that fide of the 
trees againit which the haze drove was entirely cut off; 
while the oppofite fide, which had age the aa 
saat efcaped the effe& o ta ie 
_ may on the ftrength of t 
bloffoms. of the: ean oe) had its rl, 
and all hope of fruit was more than once given u 
: anSu 
fequence was, in the valance ihe: obfersed, {carcely an “_ 
fucce aegie 
- 
The ae of the Report fcr the county of Hereford 
fays, that the pear, although, in general, producing an in- 
ferior liquor, poffeffes ape advantages for general culture, 
when compared with the apple. It will 
always beautitul. very 
nearly full grown, will afford, in moderately ee paneer 
an annual produce of twenty gallons of liquor, (taking many 
years together,) even at the loweft calculation. Man 
ingle trees in Hereford fhire have produced a hogfhead in one 
feafon, and an extraordinary tree growing on the glebe land 
of the parifh of acy has more than once filled fifteen 
hogtheads i in the fame year 
in its original ftate, became long and 1eavy, their extreme 
ends fucceffively fell to the ground, and taking frefh root at 
the feveral points where they touched it, each branch became 
a new tree, and in its turn produced others in the fame way. 
Nearly half an acre of land remains thus covered at the 
prefent time. Some of the branches have fallen over the 
ay into an ears sapiens and little difficulty would 
be found in extend 
3 when the branches of this tree, 
cider ‘wil ever be ja 
As an obje@ of fight, pear-tree ha ry advantage 
over ite rival; but Mr. ni s of opinion that under 
the ae now prattifing, to proc _varieti hx 
oid a crab era to be of this defcription. ‘The 
e of the ground as a pafture in clofely planted orchards 
vill necefily be ane reduced, but the lofs of herbage will 
in a few inftances amount to more than one-tenth of the value 
of the fruit. 
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injury done to the herbage w 
the trees might perhaps be made to {upply the whole popu- 
lation of the country employed in agriculture, with as whole. 
fome and palatable a beverage as they now poffefs, and in 
aig ade a a seated would be oo for the a 
aan ns. mber of acres now 
cela ; 
to deccanne. 
farmer has to 
