The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . , III., Dec. 23, 1868. JH. ?V^AY TO ^ET pUT ApPLE-TrEES. Forest Daniel Harrington, Tionesta, county, Pennsylvania, writes : I would make a few remarks regarding thedecay and barrenness of apple-trees. In thespring of 1840, I set out an orchard of apple-trees in the common way, by digging a smallhole just large enough to hold the roots of theyoung tree, then putting in the tree and filling cultivating apple orchards, in the case of , of Augusta, Maine, who has someone hundred and seventy trees, mostly old,wel
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . , III., Dec. 23, 1868. JH. ?V^AY TO ^ET pUT ApPLE-TrEES. Forest Daniel Harrington, Tionesta, county, Pennsylvania, writes : I would make a few remarks regarding thedecay and barrenness of apple-trees. In thespring of 1840, I set out an orchard of apple-trees in the common way, by digging a smallhole just large enough to hold the roots of theyoung tree, then putting in the tree and filling cultivating apple orchards, in the case of , of Augusta, Maine, who has someone hundred and seventy trees, mostly old,well cultivated, the soil stirred about as far asthe limbs extend, and the ground mulched withrefuse straw, potato tops, corn-stalks, etc. OneTallman Sweet Tree yielded six barrels, which,at $5 per barrel, brought $30. The wholeorchard, in one year, yielded $613 in fruit sold;and the present, not a bearing year, $200. The Commissioner of Agriculture says, thatif our soil were cultivated one inch deeper,$150,000,000 would be added to the wealth ofthe Editorial Gossip about AgriculturalJournals. The new year witnesses a remarkable changein nearly all our agricultural exchanges ; and, itmust be admitted, uniformly forthe better. Ag-ricultural journals are now admitted to be, intheir scope and circulation, the most useful,practical, and influential of all issues of thenewspaper press ; and it is gratifying to witnessthe efforts that their proprietors are making forpublic appreciation, and, in return, how freelythe pubhc are bestowing their patronage. Thirty years ago, there were but few agricul-tural journals in the country, and not one hadover five thousand circulation. Now, they areabundant on every hand, succeeding well, andincreasing from year to year. Many new journals have been launched uponthe sea of literary life during the past few months,the most prominent of which is Hearth andHome, of New-York. The appearance of thisjournal, so highly indorsed, and bearing thenam
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