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FRUIT GARB E 5 COMPANION 



Art. o. — On Protecting Fruit Trees. 



The protecting of fruit trees taken in its most ex- 

 tensive sense, may be considered as a very impor- 

 tant item in the culture of fruit. I have, under the 

 several heads in preceding articles, pointed out the 

 utility and methods of protection in a brief manner, 

 when it has appeared to be essentially necessary. 

 I shall here in a measure recapitulate those hints, and 

 combine under one head every thing that seems of 

 importance as regards the protection of fruit trees. 



In the first place, it is pretty certain that unless 

 fruit trees are planted where they can be sheltered 

 from the cold northern blast, little good may be ex- 

 pected from their culture. By observation it will 

 be seen as before stated, that where apple orchards 

 are situated on ground partly high and exposed, and 

 partly low and sheltered, trees on the latter will 

 flourish and bear abundant crops of fruit, whilst the 

 former is poor, eaten up with moss, and bears thin 

 crops of poor, meagre fruit. Now, as these trees 

 were all planted at one time, and received the same 

 culture, it is evident the difference is partly owing to 

 their beins; in the more or the less exposed situation : 

 although it is certain that difference of soil has some 

 influence on their growth. The same maybe stated 

 of most kinds of fruit trees ; although the cherry 

 bears and thrives on a poor, sandy, exposed situation 

 better than any other, 



Where fruit orchards or wardens are planted on a 

 flat plain land, they should be protected by planting 

 a row of forest trees to break off the winds and 

 storms on the cold quarter. In the management of 

 this business, some judgment is required, or the evil 



