, 1859-03-18
AgticuIiufs.
Talk about Trees.

The season is now at hand to plant out
fruit trees in our charming and fertile
Willamette valley. would generally pre-.
FER 70 plant fruit trees here in November, or
lust as soon as the trees in the nurseries
cast their leaves In the fall season. con.
slider the practice of hceling in trees a bad
one, in this country.
Trees should be let remain in the nurse
ries all winter, II they cannot be taken up
and transplanted in the fall. | have lost
Inore than four hundred trees by the heel.
inc i'm operation, within FIVE years past,
here. There is q common habit here, among
some nurse4ymen, Of cutting of the roots
Of Young trees, with the spade, but few
inches from the trunk of the trees. In such
cases the tips must be also cut back, to cor
respond with the roots. One years growth
Il lost to each tree 50 treatedl The roots
should be taken up entire, and the trees
planted out as soon as possible after Their
removal from the nurseries. There is q mis-
taken notion prevailing in our country in IT,
lation 70 The best age or size OF fruit trees,
W., bought and taken from the nurseries.
The aroat object in view here, Is to obtain
fruit nom the trees planted out, as soon and
a. much Is possible. Many persons there
fore buy fruit trees from the nurserymen,
two or three years old, and from six TO nine
feet hieh, and pay from twenty-five to fifty
ounts spiece for them Those trees are gen.
orally crowded in the nursery, and grow up
tall and slim. n they have made accidental
heads, those heads are high up. Then comes
the heading back and cutting of the frac-
cured OF bruised roots. One years growth
Is thereby lost; and have generally lost
twenty per cent Of such trees, by their
dwindling and finally dying.
But in the matter Of planting out year.
ling apple trees, the case Is changed. The
roots can all be easily taken up with the sci
ons. Five tines as many Of these can be
planted out in the orchard in n day, by the
same man, as in the case Of the large trees.
They can then be headed back to eighteen
OF twenty inches IN height-Where the head
shouli begin,-and tho tree can be shaped
from year 70 year, until perfect head is
formed oeaeh tree
The roots strike out horizontally and re-
coivo their natural supply Of food; and the
tres viii bear more fruit ia any given time
of their life, than those tall and large trees.
Not Eve per cent Of yearlings ever died in
lrnnspIahiing chem. believe that all or.
cIAldIIls ol Oregon viii agree with me, and
au1srt Ihal no pits should ever Be prepared
n ihil valley for the reception Of apple,
b,sl. plum. or cherry .rees. The very best
p|ooos of land that any Of US own hore,
shonld be selected for our orchards. Selec.
fions should Be sd0h as are rolling, or that
win admit Of draining, at least IN one direc.
ton. Deep p'owing should Be done, and
tho land well narrowed.
Trees should be planted on the top Of the |
ronnd and The earth banked up arouad |
A1m and mulchinq would be good plan
ol he 1r1t season. For the first seven
YEN. orchards should becnllivaled as well |
X We would cultivate corn. Weeds should |
not b suffered to grow near the trces. No
crop should BE- planted Or sovn IN the Or
ch1rd lhntwil exhaust the soil. In fact,
40 grain should bo raised IN an orchard. |
A. 70 he distance he trees should be planted
apart IN lhis country, there Is a great di- |
rlll||I Of opinion. Sons say sixteen, some |
twenty -four, thirly.two and forty feet apart. |
All varieties % not grow alike, or make |
tres q he lnmo size or form. The Waxen,
Baldwin. Pompey, Cfayenslein, Holland
pIpriu. Iolpahockcn, Rambo, Red Pearmain
and Pound Pippin. make large and some
uIaI spreading trees. These require more
room Iln several other varieties. MANY
roI1o1s believe that fruit trees here will be
very short lived, owing to their rapid growth
and early and very ahundant bearing.
There y severe drgwback 10 he life oil
or |0|ra' and that In the nnId annna u.h;nh