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of* being capable of growing a fruit that 

 was so much the boast of oUr forefathers, 

 and one, too, which is indigenous to the 

 country ? 



Having therefore endeavoured to take 

 into consideration the great injuries trees 

 receive in the common way in whicli 

 they are usually planted out for orchards, 

 and having also given an account of a few 

 of our most noxious insects, it remains to 

 point out such a mode of treatment as 

 seems most likely to forward the purposes 

 of a change in this system. 



In the first place, the adapting of the tree 

 properly to the soil. Loams or stiff hold- 

 ing deep soils, are such as the apple tree 

 usually succeeds in ; at the same time, as 

 too much moisture is highly injurious, 

 particular care should be paid to the 

 proper draining all kinds of orchards. 



GEconomy in manure *, such as is 

 formed from animal substances, as that 



* There is no subject that more interests the 



orchardist in the present day tlian this, and none 



that is more lost sight of. It has been observed by 



one of our best agriculturists, " that nothing should 



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