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can avoid it, to make use of suckers, particularly 

 for an apple or pear-orchard, which almost neces- 

 sarily is to become pasture. Stocks formed out ot 

 suckers produce suckers ; and, if the ground re- 

 main in grass for a few years, there, will arise a 

 young wood all over the ground ; and this wood, if 

 not torn up by the plough, will, in a short time, 

 destroy the trees, and will in still less time, deprive 

 them of their fruitfulness. Besides this, suckers, 

 being originally excrescences, and unnaturally vig- 

 orous, make wood too fast, make too much 'wood; 

 and, where this is the case, the fruit is scanty in 

 quantity. " Haste makes waste" in most cases ; 

 but, perhaps, in nothing so much as in the use of 

 suckers as stocks. By waiting a year longer and 

 bestowing a little care, you obtain seedling stocks ; 

 and, really, if a man has not the trifling portion of 

 patience and industry that is here required, he is 

 unworthy of the good fruit and the abundant crops, 

 which with proper management, are sure, in this 

 country, to be the reward of his pains. Look at 

 England, in the spring ! There you see fruit trees 

 of all sorts covered with bloom ; and from all of it 

 there sometimes comes, at last, not a single fruit. 

 Here, is this favoured country, to count the blos- 

 soms is to count the fruit ! The way to show our 

 gratitude to God for such a blessing, is, to act well 

 our part in turning the blessing to the best account 



PLANTING. 



2S3. I am not to speak here of the situation for 

 planting, of the aspect, of the nature of the soil, of 

 the preparation of the soil ; for these have all been 

 described in CHAPTER I, Paragraph 20, save and 

 except, that, for trees, the ground should be pre- 

 pared as directed for Asparagus, which see in its 

 Alphabetical place, in Chapter IV. 



