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the tree is always in a state of full bearing. Always 

 young. To talk of a tree's being worn out is non- 

 sense. But, without pruning, it Avill soon wear out. 

 It is the pruning that makes it always young. In 

 the ''Ecole du Jardin Potagur,^^ by Monsieur De 

 CoMBLES, there is an account of peach trees in full 

 bearing at fifty years old. And, little do people 

 here imagine to what a distance a peach tree will, 

 if properly managed, extend. Mr. De Combles 

 speaks of numerous peach trees extending to more 

 than fifty feet in length on the trelis, and twelve feet 

 in breadth, or height, and in full bearing in every 

 part. Here is a space of six hundred square feet, 

 and, in case of a good crop, four peaches at least 

 in every square foot, making, in the whole, 2,400 

 peaches, which would fill little short of ten or twelve 

 bushels. This is to be seen any year at Mont- 

 REUiL in France. To be sure, these trees are tied 

 to trelises, and have walls at their back ; but, this 

 climate requires neither ; and, surely, fine trees and 

 fine fruit and large crops may be had in a country 

 where blights are almost unknown, and where the 

 young fruit is never cut off by frosts, as it is in 

 England and France. To preserve the young fruit 

 in those countries, people are compelled to cover 

 the trees by some means or other, in March and 

 April. Here there needs no such thing When 

 you see the blossom, you know that the fruit is to 

 follow. By looking at the Plan of the Garden, 

 Plate I, you will see, that the Plats, No. 8 and 9, 

 contain^SO trees and the two vine-trelises. The 

 Plats are, you will remember, 70 feet long and 56 

 wide. Of course, putting 5 trees one w^ay and 4 

 the other, each tree has a space of 14 feet, so that 

 the branches may extend horizontally 7 feet from 

 the trunk of the tree, before they meet. In these 



