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der common culture : and here let it be understood 

 that many kinds of superior qualities have not been 

 described which require skilful culture ; for although 

 their superior qualities demand for them every re- 

 fcornmendation, it is under the care of the connoi- 

 seur and scientific gardener only, that they can be 

 cultivated to any advantage.* 



ART. 2. Location of the Fruit Garden or 

 Orchard. 



The spot of land chosen for the fruit department 

 will require to be sheltered from the north and north- 

 west wind, which are always injurious to fruit planta- 

 tions when in blossom. If it be so located as to lay 

 a little descending to the southeast quarter the bet- 

 ter, as in that situation it will receive the influence 

 of the sun in the early part of the spring, so con- 

 genial in most cases to the growth and maturing of 

 fruit. The nature of the soil should have the next 

 consideration of the planter. A rich mellow loam, 

 with a moderate dry, loamy sub-soil or bottom, 

 with an even surface, that the water may not collect 

 in the fall and spring arid saturate the soil, will be 

 found to answer most kinds of fruit. There are 

 yearly many thousands of fruit trees totally destroy- 

 ed by being placed in a location where the trees are 

 always saturated with water. 



The plot of ground being fixed upon, the next 

 consideration is the preparing it for planting, which I 

 consider a very important point, and deserving much 



*To such persons as are about to make fruit plantations; it is re- 

 commended that their selections be made from respectable nurseries, 

 and from those which are famed for superior kinds. 



