The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-02-23

your comfort and happiness, and the com
fort and happiness Of your miIy,--while
they beautity your home and your neigh
borhood, should your farm be put into
the market by yourself or those who come
after you, Will prove SAVINGS BANK
in which will be found every penny of
their cost, with compound interest.
". The general neglect of our farmers
to plant and cultivate fruit trees and orc7s-
ards, has been, and still is, as [ conceive.
great error; and one IN relation to which
even at the risk of being tedious, I mast
be indulged in few observations.
| need not dwell upon the fact that this
! subject has been, and is, neglected; that
this whole region is largely deficient
IN furnishing even home supply of good
fruit, one Of the richest and most delicious
products Of the earth. Our towns every
year purchase the refuse of distant mark
cts, while there is no reason why we should
nca supply ourselves, and even send large
quantities abroad, than that we neglect il.
This is known and Acknowledged. | pro-
ceed to drop few hints upon the manner
this subject should be attended to, and the
inducements to it.
- ~ J ittI Li4Ci, 4 I1lLll4 n Ia ZIG IISj
place, who has not good orchard, sh0uM
llant one tgtthOut detay. What lis hands
find to do here, should be done at once.
The kinds Of fruit which come into bear
ing soonest, require five or six years to
yieldany considerable crop, whilst you must
wait twelve or fifteen years for an apple
orchard to come into profitable bearing.
All this time, il YOU have not yet common
ced, you have lost Your neighbor. if YOU
have such a one, who started ten years ago
IS ten years ahead Of you, and you cannot
overtalle him. If you buy a farm with
everything else wanting, you can supply it
almost Immediately, if you have means.
But nso"ey will not supply you at once with
an orchard; nothing but TIME VIII do it.
You must wait for It, This is a consider
alton Of such immediate and pressing i'm
portancc, that it should remove and dispel
at once 4 rising doubt, as to whether the
.taN or spring is the better time to plant an
orchard. Now is the time. If you wait
till spring, something may then prevent it,
and another year viii be lost
?. Every farmer, [ remark again, when
he Procures young trees, should see to it
that they are rightly planted, and properly
cared for and attended to, as something Of
value. A young fruit tree, If he wishes it
togrow thriftily, and bear good fruit, should
not be set out, as he would plant fence
post. y large hole should be dug, and
bountiful supply Of suitablesoil be provided
and then he should prune and form it as
1t grows; and he should protect his young
orchard from cattle, and from The various
enemies Of the trees, with unremitting care.
II he Is unwilling to do this, he should not
incur the expense of purchasing, or the
trouble Of planting trees. The maxim is
nowhere more in point that ''what is worth
doing at all is worth doing well.'
3. | remark again, that every farmer
who has planted an orchard, and made
commencement to grow fruit, should Sc
iect some suitable spot Of ground in his
garden, or some other convenient place,
which he should call his "nursery"-
There he should plant the seeds and grow
up for his own use, seeding stocks Of the
various kinds OF fruit trees cultivated
If he does not know how to DO it, he can
readily learn the simple process of inocu-
latlng or engrafting these stocks, when
large enough, with the choicest kinds of
fruit that can be procured. When he finds
abroad, any new or superior kind, ifs it be
during the season OF rest, or when the
sap IS down, he can take gratis, or, in the
summer, buds, and carry them home, and
preserve and propagate them. lie can
thus, at no greater expense than the few
occasional minutes it may require, and
which would doubtless prove agreeable
pastime, always have stock Of valuable
young trees. He is prepared to extend
his orchard, If he wishes to make It lar
ger; or to plant another to take the place
Of one on the decline to dig out, at
the proper season, a tree that has died,
and supply its place with another: and
thus, without the trouble and expense of
going or sending to 4 distant nursery, he
can keep his farm we'll stocked with good
trees, bearing the choicest and most val
liable fruits This should be practised by
every farmer and he should teach il to
his sons as anecessary branch of husband
airy. Even ladies would find it an agreoa-
bic and appropriate amusement, to learn
to transfer bud OF one Towering shrUb,
one variety of rose, for example, to the
stock Of another, and thus secure the pleas
ant effect OF having many varieties grow
ing upon the same stock
And now, let me ask, why should not
every farmer give some share Of his attep-
ton 70 the cultivation Of fruit In view
of the inducements TO 1t. it IS truly sur
prising that so much apathy and indiiler-