Show A fine orchard one of the finest orchards in america says downings fruit books is that of pelham farm at esopus on the hudson it is no less remarkable for the beauty and high flavor of its 1 fruit than the constant productiveness of it its trees the proprietor R L pell esq has ha kindly furnished us as with some notes of his experiments peri ments on f ruit fruit trees and we subjoin the following highly interesting one on the apple for several years post past I 1 have hare been experimenting 1 I on the applet apple having an orchard 0 of 2000 bearing newton pippin trees I 1 found it very unprofitable to wait for what is termed term edthe the bearing year and it has ban been my aim to moist aist ti nature aturo so as a to enable use the trees treet to obear bear I 1 very every year I 1 have noticed that from the exi productiveness productive Beu dess of this tree it requires i I 1 the intermediate year to recover itself to extract from the earth and the atmosphere the I 1 I 1 materials to enable it to produce again this i it is not able to do unassisted by art while h is I 1 loaded with fruit and the intervening year is is J lust if however the tree is ie supplied with proper food it will bear every year at least such i has been the result of my experiments I 1 three years ago in in april I 1 scraped all the rough bark from the stems of several thousand trees in my orchards and washed all the trunks and tenius within reach with soft soap trimmed out all the bran branches chefs that crossed each other early in june and painted the wounded part with white lead to exclude moisture and prevent decay I 1 then in the latter part of the a same ame month slit alit the bark by running a sharp pointed knife from the ground to the airet set of limbs which prevents the tree f from aront becoming bark bound and gives the young wood an opportunity of expanding in july I 1 placed one peck of oyster shell lime under each tree and left it piled about the trunk until november during which time tim the drought was excessive i in november the lime was dug in thoroughly the following year I 1 collected from these trees 1700 barrels of fruit part of which was sold in new york for four and others in london for I 1 nine dollars per barrel the cider made from the refuse I 1 delivered at the mill two days day after its manufacture I 1 sold fur for three dollars and three quarters per barrel of thirty two gallons exclusive of the he barrel in october I 1 these trees with stable manure in which the ammonia had been fixed and covered this immediately with earth the succeeding autumn they were literally bending to the ground with the finest fruit I 1 ever saw while the other aither trees I 1 in in my orchard not so treated are quite barren the last season seass having been their hearing bearing year I 1 arn am now placing round lound each tree one peck of charcoal dust and propose in the spring to cover it from the composed heap my soil is a strong deep sandy loam on a gravelly subsoil I 1 cultivate my orchard grounds as if there were no trees on them and raise grain of every kind except rye which is so very injurious that I 1 believe three successive crops of it would destroy any orchard younger than 20 years I 1 raised last year in an orchard containing twenty acres trees eighteen years old a crop of indian corn which averaged bushels bushe ig of ears to the acre |