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his young trees to bear well, in the pre- 

 sent mode in which orchards are gene- 

 rally managed. 



As to the soil, it is a generally re- 

 ceived opinion, that fruit trees removed 

 from a rich soil into a poor one, are not 

 likely to succeed. That they will not 

 grow so luxuriantly in a poor soil as a 

 rich one, is a truism ; but it more fre- 

 quently happens that trees removed out 

 of well managed nursery land, although 

 it is poor of itself, into fields of better 

 soil, will fail from the want of such en- 

 couragement as they have been accus- 

 tomed to, previous to their removal. The 

 preparation of land in nursery grounds 

 is, to trench it generally three feet deep, 

 or to such depth as the land will warrant, 

 observing to reverse the stratum, by lay- 

 ing the surface in the bottom ; the 

 stocks which are intended for making 

 trees, are then planted in rows at con- 

 venient distances, and the land kept 

 particularly clean from weeds, and re- 

 peatedly turned on the surface, or dug 

 with a spade ; and in this mode we 



