Show THE cultivation OF ku IT t I 1 TREES 4 t in looking over a file of bf letters containing queries upon fruit culture we nind find that the majority of them anka may be summed up in the questions question si 41 ahat et will make my pear trees bear what shall shill I 1 do with my old apple orchard orcha td the greater part art of these numerous inquiries may ue be answered by commending the writers to the experience of two correspondents whose letters are found in the same file As the communications are gre rather long we extract their essential points mr D W ma M of adrian michigan planted some som years eyears ago a number of pear trees manghis Mon along ghis his garden arden fence where the ground soon became covered with a tough sod and those trees which survived this treatment atthe end of eight or ten years were noi not worth as much as when first taken from the nursery having occa floii bionto to move the fence it ibb became necessary liu ilu in lit order to bring the better shape to plow around the pear trees and the space near nears them was devoted voted to a hoed garden crop this treatment caused such a marked improvement pro in the trees that mr A M was encouraged to further efforts accord angly in 14 the autumn he dug a trench around each tree about two feet from the trunk and abd 15 to 18 inches wide vilde und and deep these trenches were filled with scrapings of the barnyard barn yard and as a consequence the trees were thrown into vigorous growth ever since the space around the trees has be been en madred and occupied by som some elight light gardena crop that needed frequent isoe hoe trees now bear an aban aply danee dance of fruit A good share of the unsatisfactory pear trees are just in the those above cited that thai th at of starvation and neglect surface and mulching would have produced the same sane effect and it is not too late to td apply this remedy now another matter of complaint is that dwarf pear trees are disposed to make a too vigorous growth of wood grow out of bound bounds and cease to be dwarfs while they bear brear little or no fruit in many anany instances this rampant growth arises from the fact that the tree is set belba the junction of the quince and rind pear year as root strike from the latter thee the early aTly bearing bear quality induced by growing so solely lelyon 11 on quince roots is lost if trees are wanted in miniature ta they idy must be k kept e p tir dwarf warf by a persistent course of su summer in pinching inching and to this may be added root loot pruning as described on pages 17 and 18 jaw jar jan of the current volume mr L B of west nottingham md some ten years agg ago came into possession of an old and partly j neglected orchard since taki taking ng the trees which were from 20 2 to 25 years old under his care each one has re a load of manure yearly some rows lows rows or crop demanding care are planted between the trees abt for the sake of profit but to ensure the cultivation of the ground the tha result is from three to seven barrels of marketable apples from each tree and a large quantity of the less handsome fruit ils lis is made into cider while all through his section of country a good crop of apples is the exception his crop is is generally abundant and last autumn which was not generally a good fluit fruit season be he gathered about 1500 bushels of fruit from four acres of orchard the trees of which were mostly planted 40 rk feet apart the necessity for trees which afford a crop year after y year ear would seem to be so obvious that it is unnecessary to insist upon it yet a well cultivated orchard of any kind is tand vand and not the the rule through ou the country american agrical turl gurl turf |