The following on the subject of " orchard planting," should you deem it of any importance to your readers, may be inserted in your valuable paper. The growing of fruit should be a source of pleasure to every farmer, and would be a source of great comfort, health, and profit, at the expense of but little time, attention and labor. The time and application required, to grow the very best fruit, need not materially interfere with the business of the husbandman. It is the little attentions the young orchard receives before sunrise in the morning, and after sunset in the evening, that ensures a speedy and profitable return. The labor, after your orchard is once planted, is comparatively trifling; and indeed there can be no excuse for any individual, who pretends to be a " tiller of the soil," not having an abundant supply of the best fruits upon his land.

In travelling over a great portion of Western Pennsylvania, yon will find scarcely one good bearing orchard to the square mile; this is accounted for by some, that their land is not suitable for fruit, and by others, that they have tried orchard planting, but found after waiting many years, a majority of their trees were dead and destroyed, and what few remained produced but a meagre crop, and of the poorest quality. The conclusion, therefore, most generally arrived at is, " that there is no use trying to raise fruit; It takes too much time and attention, and in the end pays but little".

My desire is to show that every farmer may, in the short period of from three to seven years, be reaping the rich fruits of an orchard, in a fine, healthy, bearing condition; producing him a profit greater than any other crop, and with the least labor. The modus operandi is as follows: Select the spot for your orchard, having an even surface - if a little elevated the better - and having also, if convenient, a south-eastward bearing. If the land selected is good, the less preparation will be required. Snrrotind ft with a good, close, and substantial fence; and if necessary, to prevent depredations, plant a hedge of the Osage Orange in the inside of your fence, which in a few years would prove a most complete protection. In the fall of the year plough and trench-plough the whole, having first applied a copious coating of stable manure; the next spring pulverise with a heavy harrow, and again applying a heavy coating of long manure, plough and subplough to the depth of sixteen inches, if possible, then harrow well and plant in potatoes.

This crop itself will pay the expense of preparation.

After your potatoes have been taken up, which may be a little earlier or later than usual, plow, harrow, and mark out for your trees; for apple trees, forty feet distant, in squares or pentagons, and between each mark for peaches; and, having selected healthy seed, and peach nuts from healthy trees, plant alternately, eight or ten in a hill, applying some well rotted cow droppings or compost, and placing a small stake to each hill.

In the coming spring, a majority of the seed will germinate, and being thinned out to four or five in a hill, must be carefully cultivated, and kept clear of weeds during the season. The ground should be again planted in some hoed crop, care being always had not to plow within four feet of the hills of your fruit trees; in July or August, your young trees are ready for budding, which must be done from the best selections, and early in the mornings, or after sunset in the evenings; carefully recording in a book kept for the purpose, the names of your varieties - and here we might say your work is done. The spring following, the hills arc to be again thinned out, leaving two of the most vigorous buds - and if there are any vacancies, supplying the same; continue to cultivate hoed crops, as before, and keep the ground about the plants, loose and clear of weeds. In the next fall or spring, select the more vigorous and healthy tree in each hill, and remove all the others; your standards will then be from four to six feet in height, and strong in proportion. In one year more you will have an abundance of peaches, and in four years your apple trees will produce a bushel of fruit each.

In eight or ten years your peach trees may be cut down or taken out, and you have an apple orchard to be proud of.

The advantages of this mode of planting over all others, must be evident without enumeration; however, if your readers should desire, I would be pleased to set them forth, in acontin-nation of this article. B. B. Pitt Township, Alleghany Co., Pa., Feb., 12, 1852.