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growth of a tree for fifteen or twenty years, cannot be 

 sufficient to injure one replanted in the same spot on 

 the contrary, the digging deep, and manuring the earth 

 for the first tree, often renders the spot more eligible 

 for a second, or third. 



The preceding experiments were undertaken with 

 a view to ascertain the best mode of planting and cul- 

 tivating orchards. If my judgment does not deceive 

 me ? I think they will be found satisfactorily to prove 

 the utility of cultivation to the promotion of the growth 

 of an orchard ; that by the aid of good cultivation, and 

 the application of proper manures, orchards will 

 flourish in any soil sufficiently dry; and that what is 

 usually denominated the quinquennial rotation of 

 crops, and is now practised almost universally by good 

 farmers in the middle states affords a degree of cul- 

 tivation, sufficient to ensure the due degree of vigour 

 and productiveness to apple trees. 



