As California, Oregon and a portion of Washington are the only prune producing districts on the continent, and as Oregon prunes head the list, why not set a few more prune trees ? You will probably not miss it if you set two thousand Italians, or one thousand Italians, five hundred Coe's Golden Drop (Silver prune), and five hundred Petite d'Agen (French prune); and if you wish to extend your acreage and become a fruit grower, put out one thousand Bartlett pears. If you still have a few acres of well-prepared rolling land - and make an orchard on no other - add two hundred Royal Ann and fifty Black Republican cherries; and if yet not satisfied, set King, Northern Spy, Baldwin and Gravenstein apples in equal numbers. By well-prepared land is meant that which has been deep-plowed, cross-plowed, thoroughly harrowed and sub-soiled, twenty to twenty-four inches deep; dead furrows every twenty feet apart for prunes, and every twenty-five feet apart for pears, cherries and apples. Set thrifty yearlings or two year old trees in dead furrows twenty and twenty-five feet apart; shovel on top dirt and set two inches deeper than grown in the nursery.

The soil should be clay loam, with previous sub-soil. Dig no holes to hold water to sicken and kill young trees; in our wet climate it is not best.

Then if you wish a thrifty-growing, polished, paying orchard, give thorough and clean cultivation and careful trimming every year ; thus you will have a ten-year, old tree in five years, and a paying investment.

To illustrate what is meant by thorough and clean cultivation, note the following contract made by A. T. Hatch, one of the most successful fruit growers of California, and a fair sample of the California method. The contract price was $12.50 per acre, and includes the following specified operations:

First

Plow away from the trees, followed by harrowing.

Second

Plow towards trees, following by harrowing. Ten summer workings with cultivator. Three workings with shallow cultivator or weed cutter. Five hand hoeings around the trees. - President J. R. Cardwbll, before Oregon Horticultural Association.