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©id ; most orchards arc planted too close. The desire of having a 

 great deal of fruit upon a little ground is the cause of so doing ; 

 but the method defeats the purpose. When an orchard is first 

 planted, sixty feet appear an immense distance, and I have known 

 many, who acknowledge the advantage of distance, feel loth to ad- 

 mit so great a vacancy, and have planted at thirty feet, with a full 

 resolution of rooting up every other tree at fifteen or twenty years 

 old; but alas ! this is scarcely practicable ; after a tree is brought 

 to full bearing, an insurmountable reluctance to eradicate it occurs, 

 which arguments, however powerful, cannot overcome. 



The sorts of apple in best estimation are, Royal Wilding, White 

 Styre, Redstreak, Court of Week Pippin, Pounset or Cadbury, 

 Flood Hatch, Black Pit Grab, Buckland, Mediate or South-ham, 

 Royal Jcrfey, Woodcock, Red Hedge Pip, Old Jersey, and Red- 

 streak. They are grafted on crab stocks in the nursery, with any 

 gross growing fruit. 



As soon as the ground for the orchard is ready, plant your trees, 

 and be particularly careful not to plant them deep in the ground. 

 After about four years, lop their heads and graft them with the 

 fruit you most esteem, taking care to adapt your grafts to the 

 stock. In other words, let your grafts, and the trees on whose 

 hcad5 ^u graft, be as similar in respect to luxuriancy as you can ; 

 on this a great deal depends. It is found, that a luxuriant gross 

 growing graft will never succeed on a slow growing stock, and so 

 " >vke versa," It may also be observed, that some excellent sorts 

 of fruit are naturally so slow of growth, that a man instead of 

 planting for himself, plants for his grand-children ; and if you en- 

 deavour to force them (which is often injudiciously done) with lux- 

 uriant stocks, you occasion disease. The trees never become 

 large or lasting, and the fruit will be tasteless and insipid. 



Great care should be taken to secure the trees whilst young, 

 From the nabbing and rubbing of cattle, and more especially sheep, 

 but in this respect the planters in this country are not very atten- 

 tive, nor is there any thing worth notice in their management of 

 the fruit. 



The average pries of the article is about thirty shillings per 



hogshead, 



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