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tliree feet deep, and tlie earth before being filled in must be rendered light by mixture 

 with «Tood garden mold. This method is to be preferred to tliat of planting in March, 

 which has the groat inconvcnionce of causing a loss of valuable time to the tree, 

 which, when jdantcd in November, is ready to vegetate the first fine weather in spring; 

 but when planting is deferred till March the vegetation of the tree is often retarded 

 bv the drying winds so prevalent at that season. The plants called ciyhtecn-months 

 are preferred for planting. They are so called from having been eighteen moirths 

 budded, or nearly so long. Trees which have been thirty months budded, and which 

 liave been cut back upon a lower eye, and of which the roots are mucli larger and 

 less fibrous than the former, arc not so good ; still, in some particular cases, they arc 

 not to be rejected ; for instance, they often take root better in new ground. 



oG. "While the holes are being dug, the roots are trimmed, that is, their bruised 

 extremities are cut with a sharp pruning-knife, and so as that the cut surfaces may 

 rest upon the earth when the tree is planted. At the same time, its head is taken ofi" 

 at from eight to nine inches above the bud to allow of planting it with a sufficient 

 inclination, so that the stem may touch the wall ; while the roots are so far from the 

 foot of the latter as not to be cramped in growing by the foundations. See fig. G, 

 which represents the tree before being planted. It is headed back at the point a. 



57. The tree is fixed in its place at six and a quarter inches from the wall, and not 

 deeper in the earth than it was before. It is so placed that the eyes a and h of the 

 bud may be at each side, and not before and behind, without heeding the position of 

 the orifinal bud. It is of little moment whether the latter be turned one way or the 

 other, provided the eyes be properly placed. For the formation of a fine tree in a 

 short time, this precaution is of greater importance than most people suppose. Gar- 

 deners usually plant their trees with the budded part in front, without paying the 

 least attention to the position of the eyes. The following spring, when the tree 

 shoots, they are astonished to see the greater number of trees thus planted with eyes 

 before and behind ; while those planted as I have directed have their eyes well placed, 

 one on each side. When the tree is in the proper position the roots are carefully 

 spread out, and then covered over to the lieight I have directed, or at least in such a 

 way that the bud, h, may be kept out of the earth. 



58. A space of twenty-six feet is left between those Peach trees intended to be 

 trained in the square form. AVhen a Peach and a Pear are to be planted alternately, 

 there should then be a distance of thirty-nine feet between them. The intermediate 

 spaces may be usefully employed by planting between each Peach and Pear tree a 

 young tree, which can be brought uj) till three years old, and which may be employed 

 to make a fresh plantation, producing a crop in a short time. -,^ 



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