. The American fruit culturist. ce it receives greater , of the thousands of trees which are every year trans-planted in all parts of the country, the assertion may be madewith safety, that vioje ai-e lost from neglected after-culture thanfrom all other causes put together. To purchase and set out fine fruit-trees of rare sorts, in abaked and hardened soil, whose entire moisture and fertilityare consumed by a crop of weeds and grass, might very aptly CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL. 79 and without exaggeration be compared to the purchase of afine horse, and then perpetually to exclude him f
. The American fruit culturist. ce it receives greater , of the thousands of trees which are every year trans-planted in all parts of the country, the assertion may be madewith safety, that vioje ai-e lost from neglected after-culture thanfrom all other causes put together. To purchase and set out fine fruit-trees of rare sorts, in abaked and hardened soil, whose entire moisture and fertilityare consumed by a crop of weeds and grass, might very aptly CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL. 79 and without exaggeration be compared to the purchase of afine horse, and then perpetually to exclude him from food anddrink. Here is the great and fatal error with a large portion whoattempt the cultivation of fruit. We may not incorrectlydivide these into three classes: 1. Those who, having procured their trees, destroy them atonce by drjang them in the sun or wind, or freezing them inthe cold, before setting out. 2. Those who destroy them by crowding the roots into smallholes cut out of a sod, where, if they live, they maintain a. Fig. 113.—Neglected Trees. Fig. 114.—Well Cultivated Orchard. stunted and feeble existence, like the half-starved cattle of aneglectful farmer. 3. Others set them out well, and then consider their laborsas having closed. They are subsequently suffered to becomechoked with grass, weeds, or crops of grain—some live andlinger, others die under the hardship; or else are demolishedby cattle, or broken down by the team which cultivates theground. The annexed illustrations are a fair exhibition of the differ-ence in results between neglected management, as seen onthe left, and good cultivation, on the right, as seen in treesfive or ten years after transplanting (Figs. 113 and 114). A neighbor purchased fifty fine peach-trees, handsomelyrooted, and of vigorous growth; they were well set out in afield containing a fine crop of heavy clover and timothy. Thefollowing summer was dry ; and a luxuriant growth of meadow-grass nearly hid them from sight. What was
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