The writer justly advises good cultivation of orchard trees, and especially young trees. There is, however, a medium to be observed; for if young trees are stimulated too highly, their duration of life is certainly reduced. All trees should grow steadily, healthily, and so that the wood ripens perfectly clear to the tips of the young branches. Two extremes are to be avoided, viz., neglect or poor culture, so that moss, etc., accumulates, and the overgrowth, carrying the tree into late autumn with green, unripe wood at tips, and all of it, perhaps, soft and spongy, with a pith like the elder.

The writer speaks of large orchards (as ten acres), and of the long time requisite to bring an apple orchard into bearing.

Let me advise him to take a trip into Illinois, Indiana, and other Western States, and there see the apple orchards of four to six hundred acres each, and bearing good-paying crops at the expiration of four yean from planting. If he wants to see peach orchards, let him go to southern Illinois, or the south shore of Lake Michigan, where he will find the extent even rivaling that of the Delaware Country.