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as accomplishing three important objects : supplying food 

 for silk worms ; keeping the trees low, that the leaves may 

 be gathered from the ground by children, and furnishing 

 a good and almost never ending fence. In transplanting 

 young trees for hedges, they should not be pruned ; but 

 the second year or at least the third, the tops should be 

 cut off and the side branches trained laterally with the 

 hedge by interweaving them. 







SETTING OUT STANDARD TREES. 



It is an axiom in rural economy, that the greater the 

 disbursement in improving the land the greater will be 

 the proportional income. The land where the trees are 

 to be set, will be much better for the purpose if ploughed, 

 harrowed and manured. The trees may be three years 

 old if taken from a rich soil, or four if from a poor soil ; 

 they should be from four to eight feet in height, and at 

 least an inch in diameter. The holes should be dug at 

 about the same distance from each other as for setting 

 apple trees, and be made eighteen inches deep and three 

 or four feet in diameter. The bottoms of these holes 

 may be covered with a few inches of fresh mould. The, 

 young tree should be placed in its proper range, ascer- 

 tained by a stake at each extremity of the line, and it 

 should be held there till its roots are well covered with 

 friable and well manured earth, free from stones, and 

 must be well trodden down and watered if necessary 5 

 a small cavity round the stem to retain the rain is very 

 proper. Two or three dressings a year with a hoe" and 

 manuring occasionally rqay be of essential advantage, 

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