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Agricultural Ranting Fruit Trees. 1 ?6w is the Right Time--Thc Best Varieties for This Clioaate--How to Treat Trees Planting. F' Masse j in Progressive Farmer. In the south nil orchard plantstog should be done in the fall, soil does uot freeze deeply winter, and the trees will be making new feeding fibres before She weather is warm enough in ?priog to start the tops to swell <?SNo matter how carefully a tree ? dug from the nursery, the feeding roots, that is the small fibres which are alone c< ncerned in getting food from the soil, are all fined up and destroyed. Hence to planting we should prune the *>ot8 rather closely, say to six ?che8 all around, for the new Ibres will start more readily >*<mi a clean-cut surface than S%oin the old dried up rootlets. But when a tree is set in spriug 9?r hot weather comes so early ifcat the tops leaf out and the Aee is apt to get exhausted beSore root hairs enough are formad to supply it with water. There *?re we advise tall planting. *CY DIRECT FROM T11K NURSERY. l>o not deal with a traveling salesman, no matter if he represents a reliable nurserv, for by Jealing directly with the nursery can always get better trees mud at lower prices. Do not let mmy one persuade you that farfatcheed trees are better than ftwmegrown ones. Get the trees flrom the nearest reliable nursery Send the nurseryman (or more Xban one of them) a list of what' you want to plant, and ask him to put his lowest prices on the list for cash, and tell him that he JAas not, must not have something ekae substituted for it, but that jtai want just what you order And nothing else. PLANT YEAR-OLD TREES. Never plaut any tree older 'fean .one year from the graft or Hud. ft>f course no one ever plauts ij)*ach (trees older than this, but vriikeu it comes to apples and 9**rs, etc., people want big trees, ow if jou buy the ordinary dbaree or four-year-old apple trees it will be utterly impossible to them into the shape you afcouhl. The nurseryman knows flbat people buy trees, as a rule, fry height, and he grows them as fell as possible. At the end of ifce year he heads them back dlightly, and in the crowded nurmry rows they start unsymmet ?cal heads and too high from the ground, and when you plant these oki trees you have got to accept the uurBery head and the tall ?b?m. But if you plant a yearling .free it is a mere switch full of buds all ready to start. Then you can out it so as to form the fcead of the tree where the head always should be in the south, mclj a few inches from the ground. 48 Mr. Hales, the great Georgia peach grower, said last Winter at the meeting of the Virginia orticultural Society: "What do you waut with a trunk to a tiruit tree more than enough to old the head? In my big orchard i*i Georgia I have no such thing we a step-ladder and do not need mny. Last summer a man sat on 1 ground under one of my trees < and gathered half the crop on the 1 Department. tree before getting on hia feet." PRUNING TH* 8PR0UT8. Therefore in planting a tree 1 would select a one year tree, would prone the roots carefully, when the earth is not wet. I would put the top soil in the bottom of the hole, but never anything like manure in contact with the roots. I would ram everv inr.h of noil nut. in ??j ti?ht ]y hb netting a gate post, and would never allow the earth to be settled by pouring water in the hole. Then when the tree is set cut the top off about eighteen to twenty iuches from the ground. It is very common to see tall stemmed trees here with the bark Killed by sun scald on the southwest side. With the short stem one canjeasily stick a shingle on that side to keep the anil f\ ff till tl.o or 1?... uuiji v? ji iuv tvp nj/icajo tu shade it, as it will in one season with such a short stem. Peach trees we would head not over eight or ten inches from the ground. Not only does the low head soon protect the stem from the sun, but the tree is more ac cessible for spraying and gather ing the fruit, and a tall trunk merely makes the reverse of this, with the udded tendency to blow over by the wind. WHAT VARITIK8 TO PLANT. Ana now let me suggest to you the varieties best suited to the Oarolinas and adjoining States. APPLES.?Plant some of the summer varieties for the home markets, such as Early Harvest, Red Astrakan and Carolina Red June. Then for fall and early winter use plant the Bonum, the best fall apple grown anywhere, and a native of this state. Also Fall Pippin, Johnathan and Grimes Goldeu. For winter plant Stayman VVinesay, York Im perial; a few Lady Apples, a lit tie apple which sells for higher prices than any other apple, but is rather uncertain as to bearing, but good specimens will often bring $20 a barrel at Christmas I should have said that for fall some of the old Horse- app) s should always be planted. The Royal Limbertwig is also good for winter, but we would not I plant the old Limbertwig nor the Ben Davis, for people are finding out how poor an apple the Ben Davis is, and it is certain to sell for low prices in the future. Do not plant too many varieties. PEACHES.?For the home market plant both the earliest aud the latest, while for North em shipping there id no use to plant any later than Elberta. Sneed ie the earliest peach, but small and generally poor. But its earliness sells it, for it ripens here the last of May. Qreens boro is a good early peach, and quite a showy one for au early peach. Mary's Choice, Reeve's Favorite, Crawlord Late, Lady Ingold and Elberia are all good. Elberta is a gre..t market peach and sells on its showy looks, tnough it is not of high quality. Late ones tor home use are Beer's Smock, Chair's Choice, Algiers Winter and Ilinggold Health. PLUMS?.Plant the Japan varieties: Abundance, Burbank, Chabot, Satsuma Blood, Gold and Ogon, and a tew Kesley tor very late. PEARS.?If you are going to give the tree the proper care, you dan grow some of the finer gorts. Bartlett can be grown .S ... - . j ,-T FURNI1 OAK DOUBLE-LOi BEDSTEAD, 48 IN. The famous 70-in. roll-: Bedstead. A bargain For a leader, we can fit you u] The old time Split-bottom Chair our price 70 cents. The regular in stock. We have the largest, and are going to surprise you wi go away pleased. Remember tt and p-ftt navtirnlars The Underselling Store. here, but. is badly inclined to b ight. Seckel always sells and th j trees are very little subject to bight This is 'rue also with Buerre D' Anj u the most prolific of all tall pears. Clairjieau is also uood. Bui tor ordinary treatment the be?t pears are the hybrids of the sand pear, the Kiefer, Garber and Leconte These will urow and bear under very adverse conditions, but are far inferior to the ones named fthnvA Apple Jack Seized in Yorkvilie--Two Wagon Loads. ? Yorkville special in Monday's News and Courier: Friday five white men travel ing in two covered wagons, and each wagon drawn by two horses, drove into town ostensibly for the purpose of selling apples. They hailed from North Carolina. / . . I M3 n> 'fr'tjOk, r r\ U J (T> 3' OTQ r-trr CD ET 3 o c in vO Q M rN M p,k An jn HIGH $?.4U | $4.50 ? - 2 L r> a complete Oak Suit, bureau, w for 45 cents. An open cane bo $1.25 Oak Rocker at $1.00. A ? newest and most complete line oi ith the rock-bottom prices we are le handsome 3550.00 Suit of Fnrni Williams-Hi Today at ?b<ut noon the entire outfit was escorted through he iiia:n stieet and to Magistrate C tiner's office by Chief ot Police Love and Policeman Sanders. I It developed that the a;>|le tea j ture ot their businet-s was only a side line, and that their; principal line was apple brandy, which they had been retailing to whoever would buy since their arrival in town the day before. I *r? ? senator iiilman spoilt last Friday in Charleston oa his way home from a lecturing tour in Florida. Ho says the dispensary will be the issue next year. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. j All person* indebted to the estate of the late W. C. Cauthen are hereby notified to make pay met to the undersigned, and all persons having olaims against said estate are requested to present same, duly attested. Mrs. .lulls Cauthen, Admrv. UNITURE urniture.. We have some of the best bargains ever offered in odd BUREAUS i A solid oak Dresser for $5.00, 6.00, 7.50 and up to $18.50. Big stock of Side Boards?prices in reach of all, $10 and up, no dining fa/mv* r\1 a ??t? i u /m? I- .> IUU111 tuiupitic W1L11UUL tX sideboard. i Here is the greatest bargain ever offered in A LOUNGE Something every bodyshould have and they j* " are now going like hot f gffigMjS. cakes. Old price $5.75, now going at $5.00. 35|?5|9|A11 colors. We also have the Valour and Leather Couch. $10.00 and up. Mahogany viSay parlor suits and in odd ashstand and bedstead for $9.90. ttom Diner, regular price $1.00, food line of Willow Rockers now + : Furniture in Lancaster county giving. We guarantee you to ture we are giving away. Come ughes Co. The First National Hank of Lancaster, S. C., Solicit* Recount* of individual*, Hrm* and corporation*, and offer* to depositor* every facility and courtesy consistent with *ound banking. I nferest.allowed on time deposit. 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