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GARDENS AND ORCHARDS. 
Mr. C, recommends to the farmers’ attention, the cul¬ 
ture of wall-fruit, as far as he has opportunity, parti¬ 
cularly pears of the best kind, peaches, apricots, nec¬ 
tarines, and cherries, as well as strawberries. He 
says, soap-water, after the family washing, is good for 
fruit-trees; by applying it in the winter, he has ren¬ 
dered a barren vine fertile in grapes ; also asparagus, 
mushrooms, garden beans, pease, chamomile flowers, 
elder berries, red and white, cucumbers, and early po¬ 
tatoes, are very profitable, and worthy the farmer’s at¬ 
tention, as well as turnips for seed; garden-gound, well 
attended to, being more profitable than any other. 
Apple and pear trees thrive and bear well, only a 
few years, on light soils; to remedy this, a succession 
of fresh young trees of the best sorts should be pro¬ 
vided every six or seven years ; light soils will produce 
crabs, medlars, servins, quinces, and the Siberian 
crab, much esteemed for making of tarts, or eating, 
when kept till mellow. 
Cherries, plums, damsons, and all stone fruit, will 
do well on light soils, as will also filberts, which meet 
a ready sale, and pay better than any fruit whatever ; 
they have the advantage of not being molested by 
birds, and should be reared from the slips of grown-up 
trees, and will bear well in a few years: the filbert 
does better to grow as a standard, than in the bush 
way. 
Mr. Marshall gives the following as the apples most 
esteemed for making cyder ; after observing, that the 
old fruits, which raised the fame of the liquors of this 
country, are now lost, and the red streak is given up : 
1. The Stire Apple; this is going off, the stocks 
canker, and are unproductive; fruit somewhat below 
the 
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