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laiul between the rows may be cultivated 

 with lucerne to considerable advantage 

 during the first few years of the growtli, 

 i. e. four drills, may be sown at a foot apart, 

 and then it leaves three feet on each side 

 for the trees to grow. As the plant 

 requires garden culture, and must be 

 hoed, manured, and dug, the apple- 

 trees are receiving advantage at the 

 same time ; as the trees increase in bulk, 

 every other one in the row^s is taken up 

 and planted where it is wanting, and the 

 culture of the lucerne crop discontinued. 

 An improvement on this mode of growing 

 a dwarf orchard was some years ago 

 adopted by J. Tyson, Esq. of Drovo-house 

 near Chichester, by putting in four hop- 

 ])oles at right angles four or five feet 

 distant, and tying the tops in so as to 

 form a pyramid, the branches of the 

 trees, after having grown sufficiently long, 

 are then pruned of the superfluous wood, 

 and trained so as to cover the surface 

 round com])letely with bearing wood, and 

 I have witnessed in this mode the great- 

 <f^st cro})s I ever saw in my life, and few 

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