Our article on mulching published two years since, was widely copied throughout the United States, and has had au effect in drawing the attention of fruitgrowers to this practice as the only true and sound one for the successful cultivation of fruit and the preservation of trees through varying seasons of dry and hot weather. Strawberries are now generally mulched, and less gritty or sandy fruit is now seen in our markets than ever before.

A sagacious small fruit grower near New Brunswick, N. J., mulches his place heavily and never removes it from one year's end to the other. His soil is always 13 cool, mellow, and his trees and vines never suffer from heat, his fruit is large, fair and delicious, and bis produce is extraordinary in quantity.

For all newly planted trees in the spring of the year, mulching is the only safe guarantee of their success, - without mulching many will fail; with it, not one should be lost. The practise is also a saving of labor, and if the mulch is applied two to three inches deep, it will keep down all weeds.

Mulching can also be used to retard fruit three to ten days in time of ripening. Upon sandy light soil, currants can not be grown without it.

Pears dropping from the tree are safe from bruises. Tomatoes mulched with it, will double their produce. We scarcely know of a single objection to mulching, and in our experience it has proved one of the most economical and efficient aids to fruit culture ever brought to the notice of the public.