The following is the experience of the two most successful peach growers in the Delaware Peninsula:

' Mr. Cumtnings says: "You may raise some crops on the vacant land till the trees and plants begin to yield their fruits, but after that the land ought not to be taxed with anything other than the intended crops. The trees, etc., should be manured and limed to keep them in heart, and the ground cultivated like a garden, that no weeds or grass may interfere with the orchard. I plough my orchard, harrow, and cultivate - the latter process three and four times every summer, when I lay it by".

' Mr. Pennimore says : "My long experience has taught me that all vegetables, from the very smallest to the greatest, small fruit and fruit trees, require the very best and constant cultivation in due season ; not to suffer small grain, and particularly white clover, to grow around the roots. As the trees come into bearing, it is very necessary that some stimulating manures should be applied.

Leached ashes are probably the best fertilizer you can get - one hundred and fifty bushels to the acre ; the next best is well composted manure, In all pases plough shallow ; the feeding roots are all searching moisture, and the best soil. Therefore, as the roots work for the surface, where the manure is, if you plough deep you destroy the feeding power"