The Lambertville Press

Young Fruit Trees in Autumn.

Many trees set out within the past two years, have not made a satisfactory growth. This has been owing, undoubtedly, to the hasty and imperfect manner in which they were planted, or to the neglect they have suffered since. This very month of November is a good time to commence restoring the vigor of those trees. At once, before winter sets in, cart some old, well-rotted manure into the young orchard, dropping small heaps-say, about a bushel, each-at the foot of every tree. Take off part of the soil from the roots, spread the manure equally over the whole, and mix it in with the earth, leaving the ground loose for the winter. Be sure to feed the extremities of the roots; there is no use putting the manure around the trunk of the tree. The spongioles are the mouths of the tree, and the food should be put within their reach, at the ends of the roots. This treatment will give the tree new vigor in the next growing season.

Of the importance of heaping little mounds of dirt around the trunk for the winter, our readers are doubtless well informed. This is the best possible preventive of the attacks of mice. This hillock is to be removed, of course, in the Spring.--Ib.