Advice to Correspondents. 
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MULCHING. 
A covering of coarse manure, straw, marsh hay, or loose chip dirt, during the first season, will 
effectually prevent injury from drought, and is a benefit at all times. 
DAMAGED TREES. 
If stock is frozen when received, place the package in a cellar and entirely bury in sand until the 
frost is removed. If dried from long exposure oury in the ground or keep in water until the shriveled 
appearacce disappears. 
HOW TO WINTER TREES PROCURED IN THE FALL. 
The practice of procuring supplies of trees in the Fall is becoming more and more general as each 
season demonstrates its wisdom. To insure success you have only to get the trees before freezing 
weather, and bury them in the following manner: Choose a dry spot where no water will stand during 
the winter, with no grass near it to invite mice. Dig a trench, throwing out enough dirt to admit one 
kiyer of roots below the surface, and place the trees in it, inclined to an angle of 45 degrees or more, 
widen the trench, throwing the soil among the roots in position; place another layer in the trench, 
reclining the tops on the others, and so on until all are in the trench ; then finish by” throwing up more 
soil until the tops of the trees are nearly or quite covered. It is also well to bank up the earth around 
the sides to insure more thorough protection. The exposed tops should then be covered with pine 
boughs, which insures them against any possibility of injury. Care should be taken to fill solid all the 
interstices among the roots. In the Spring the roots will be found to have formed the granulation 
necessary to the production of new spongioles, and when planted at the proper time will start to im- 
mediate growth. 
If the trees are frozen when received, they should be buried immediately in the earth, tops and all, 
and allowed to thaw in this conditon. 
PLANT YOUNG TREES. 
We cannot too strongly recommend to our customers the procuring of young trees, especially for 
orchard planting, instead of selecting the largest that can be had, to secure more immediate effect. 
They can be taken up with more perfect roots, and will become sooner established in a new location. 
They can also be more readily trained to any desired shape. The largest and most successful planters 
invariably select young, thrifty trees as the surest in the end to give thorough satisfaction. 
For small grounds, or street planting, when it is necessary to make a show as soon as possible, 
large trees are often desirable, and when handled with care should not fail to do well, but with the 
general planter the average of loss will be much less, and both time and money will be saved if young 
trees are selected to commence with. 
DISTANCES FOR PLANTING. 
Standard Apples 
Standard Pears and strong growing Cherries 
Duke and Morello Cherries 
Standard Plums, Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines. 
Dwarf Pears 
Dwarf Apples 
Grapes 
Currants and Gooseberries 
Raspberries and Blackberries 
Straw terries, for field culture 
Strawberries, for garden culture 
16 
10 
10 
rows 10 to 16 feet apart, 7 
3 
3 
1 
1 
30 feet apart each way. 
20 “ 
18 “ “ “ “ 
to 18 “ “ “ 
to 12 “ “ “ “ 
to 12 “ “ 41 44 
to 16 feet in rows, 
to 4 feet apart, 
to 4 by 5 to 7 feet apart, 
to 134 bj' 3 to 3fcj ft. apart, 
to 2 feet apart. 
Note.— A most excellent way in planting an apple orchard 30 feet apart is to plant peaches in be- 
tween. By the time the apples require the ground the peaches will have passed their prime and can 
be removed. 
NUMBER OF TREES TO AN ACRE. 
30 feet apart each way 50 
25 “ 70 
20 “ “ “ “ 110 
18 “ “ u “ 135 
15 “ “ “ *' 205 
12 “ “ “ “ 300 
10 feet apart each way. 
8 4 “ ** ** , 
6 44 
5 n “ 
4 4 * 
3 “ “ “ “ . 
. 435 
. 680 
.1210 
.1742 
2723 
.4840 
Rule.— Multiply the distance in feet between the rows by the distance the plants are apart in the 
rows and the product will be the number of square feet for each plant or hill ; which, divided into the 
number of feet in an acre 1.43,500), will give the number of trees to an acre. 
