Litchfield enquirer., 1851-10-23
For the Enquirer. MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES.

At this season of the year, fruit trees or dinarily require very little care, except perhaps to secure them against the driving storms of winter. Young trees may re- quire to be supported, by binding them to stakes 1: or those that stand in exposed sit pations, may be protected from the excess sive rigors of winter, by covering the ground around them with chips, coarse manure, 6Cc. In doing this, however, care should be taken not to furnish accommodations for mice, which they would use to the in- jury, perhaps the destruction, of the trees. Hence avoid throwing any light substance, as straw, leaves, grass, &c, around the trees; or ifsuch be used, let them be pressed down compactly around the tree, or rather placed a little distance from it, that the snow may occupy the intervening space.
 In regard to peach trees, as they are frequently injured by the worm at the root, it may be well to dig the ground away from the tree to the depth of two or three inch, es. and poar around the root one or two quarts of boiling soap studs, and then replace the soil that was removed. This will kill the worms without injuring the trees. Yet, as the worms are dormant during the wins ter, and come up towards the surface in the spring, even this operation may. per haps be as well deferred tll spring. Dur ing the spring and summer, fruit trees re- quire much more attention, and pay well for all that they requ're. But as any d. rection on the subject would now be out of time, l shall defer them to future occa- sion.
 Tyansplanting Zress.-In regard 10 the best time for transpanting trees, there are different opinions some preferring the autumn, others the spring. have DO doubt, however, thnt both seasons have heir advantages. and that much depends upon the nature of the soil, and the kind of trees. 1.-the soil is of kind that 'heaves' 1 by frost, would prefer to transplant in the spring; if a dry. sandy soil. would prefer the aur umn, especially for fruit trees - Trees that are .ransplantsd in the latter season, should be taken up with Il good root, or they will suffer from evaporation before the growing season arrives. This is espe- cialy true of those trees that are not very tenacious of lfe-as the maple, beach, &c. The transphntiog may commence us soon as the leaves begin to fall.
 For eyergresns. l would prefer ihe spring of the year; and whether taken ear. ly or late in the season, they should be fires quen,ly wa,ered during the first summer. My own experience and observation would lead me to prefer early transplanting-as soon as the frost is out of the ground, tho some prefer later period.
 In transplanting trees, two things (besides the nature of the soiD should be borne in mind, viz., tho size of the tree, and the injury done to the root. A large tree re- quires large root to supply it with nour- ishment; and although tho cutting away of the top may m part compensate for the loss of the root, yet if the root be dispro-
 portionally small, tho tree will die, even after it has begun to grow. Witness our
 newly transplanted elms.
 But as the root of every tree ia moro or
 less injured by removal, it becomes neces sary to cut of part of the top, in propor>
 tion to the injury done to the root. While r undisturbed, the whole root was required a to pourish the top; now that the root is ! injured. it becomes necessary to remove a
 part of the top, or, (extraOrdinaries except> ed,) it will dio of starvation, or will at bes,
 barely live the first season, though it may
 thrive the next. SOMEBODY.
 Oct. IS. 1851.