Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-04-15
Agricultural.
FROM TIE RALEIGH REGISTER.
ORCHARDS.

Let US cultivate the ground, that the
poor, as well as the rich, may be filled I;
and happiness and peace be established
throughout our borders"
The utility of an orchard, or orchards,
both for private use and profit, stored
with the various sorts Of fruit trees,
must be very great, as we'll as afford
infinite pleasure from the delightful ap
psarsnce it makes from early spring,
till ate in autumn: in spring, the vari.
GUS trees in assom are highly ornsmen-
tai; in summer, the pleasure is heighten
ed by observing the various fruits advan-
cling to perfection, and as the season adj
vances, the mature growth OF the different
sorts arriving to perfection in regular sue
cession, from Nav until the end of OctO.
Der, must afford grea, delight, az well as
profit. The feelings oil lover Of i'm
provement can scarcely I've expressed on
observing the almost universal inatten-
tior paid to the greater number of gu.
orchards. and that people who go to
considerable expense in planting and es-
tablishing them, afterwards leave them TO
the rade hand If nature as if the art
and ingenuity Of man availed nothing, or
that Trey meritrd no further care how
ever, it is to be hoped that the good ex-
ample, ard the consequent success, OF
the careful and industrious. will stlmu-
late 1'her, 20 p,y the nec"s "a attention
TO the,p depa tments, and 'hereby'o serve
thco selves as we'll as the community at
large.
as orcha DIS. in their general accepta
tirr, comprehend variety OF fruit tree,
it Nv perhaps be proper to rema K. that
the observations which will follow under
this head, will be exclusively confaed to
apple trees. There is no other fruit tree
which so richly deserves the attertlcn
and cultivation Of the husbandman, as
the apple it will thrive and live in al
mos, every climate it yields fruit e
qualiec BY none in abu dance AID e eel.
lence, and liquor which, if proper J
made, little inferior to the best aine.
1t behOses eve J philanlhropist to en-
courage the cultivation Of orchard, and
the making Of good cider, BY way of dis
couraging the too general use Of ardent
spirits. Good cider would BE- national
saving Of wealth, BY expeliing foreign IL
quors; and Of life, by expelling the use
of ardent spirits.
The mismanagemen, Of apple trees Of
ten begins in the nursery by leaving suck
ers from the roots, BY letting The trees
grow SO crooked as TO become incapable
of good shape, and especially by leav-
ing branches for tu o or three years,which
mus, be cut away when the tree is plant
ed. because they are too low, or crowd
the head.
This incumbrance has wasted great
part of the sap, which would otherwise
have increased the regular growth The
wound. oecasioned by this Topping, can
not soon be covered with new ba k, and
in the meantime often produce decay.
Sometimes this neglect is continued in
part, when the trees arr removed from
the. no sery, because some persons re-
greet the loss Of branches. which wnald
bear the same, or the next year, AID 9th
ers cannot foresse the bad constq ences
OF keeping them winch will Incl ease with
their growth. and force much w,rse am
putatiou
The head Of every tree should begin
at least six fee from the ground AID IF
those whose branches are sloping. eight.
When the head has been formed so low
rs FIVE feet, but is well grswb,,t may be
continued; but then its branches oush,
to be trimmed near the stem, and by SINE !
eontrivance be enabled t. rise. The head
ought to have but one leader, because two
seldom succeed, as he iG~a,d lateral