V.j THE AMERICAN GARDENLR. 



List of the several fruits ; to speak of the different 

 sorts of each ; and of the mode of preserving them ; 

 but the stocks and pruning' vary, in some cases ; 

 and, therefore, as I go along, I shall have to speak 

 of them. Before, however, I enter on this Alpha- 

 betical List, let me observe, that only a part of the 

 fruits mentioned in it are proposed to be raised in 

 the garden ; and that the 70 trees, shown in the 

 Plate I, are intended to mark the paces, and, in 

 some degree, the form, of 6 Apple trees, 6 Apricots, 

 6 Cherries, 6 Nectarines, 30 Peaches, 6 Pears, and 

 10 Plums ; and, that the trelises, on the Southern 

 sides of Plats, No. 8 and 9, are intended to mark 

 the places for 4 Grape-Vines, there being another 

 Plate to explain more fully the object and dimen- 

 sions of this trelis work.* 



300. APPLE. Apples are usually grafted on 

 crab-stocks (See Paragraph 281 ;) but, when you do 

 not want the trees to grow tall and large, it is bet- 

 ter to raise stocks from the seed of some Apple not 

 much given to produce large wood. Perhaps the 

 Fall-Pippin seed may be as good as any. When 

 you have planted the tree, as directed in Paragraphs 

 283 to 289, and when the time comes for shorten- 

 ing the head, cut it off so as to leave only five or 

 six joints or buds. These will send out shoots, 

 which will become limbs. The tree will be what 

 they call; in England, a dwarf standard ; and, ol 

 this description are to be all the 70 trees in the 

 garden. As to pruning, see PEACH ; for, the pru- 

 ning of all these dwarf standards is nearly the 

 same. The sorts of Apples are numerous, and 

 every body knows, pretty well, which are the best. 

 In my garden I should only have six apple trees ; 

 and, theref re, they should be of the finest for the 

 season at which they are eaten. The earliest apple 



