APPLES AS BUSHES FOR 'MARKET GARDENS. ?3 



over to a depth of twenty inches (if very poor and ex- 

 hausted, from thirty to forty tons of manure may be 

 forked in) not more, as trees such as I have recom- 

 mended, viz., pears on the quince stock and apples on 

 the English. Paradise stock, do not root deeply this 

 ought to cost 6 13s. 4d. The annual expenses are 

 forking the surface in spring, 1 6s. 8d., and hoeing 

 the ground, say four times during the summer, 1 4s. 

 I give the amounts paid here for such work. Then 

 comes the summer pinching of the shoots by a light- 

 fingered active youth, and this may, at a guess, be put 

 down at 1, making the aggregate annual expenses 

 3 10s, 8d., or, say 4 per acre. The large return 

 will amply afford this outlay, even adding, as we 

 ought to do, the interest on capital, and rent. 



It will be seen that what I propose is in reality a 

 Nursery Orchard which may be made to furnish fruit 

 and trees for a considerable number of years. To 

 fully comprehend this, we must suppose a rood of 

 ground planted, as I have described, with 1,210 bush 

 apple trees. In the course of eight or ten years, half 

 of these, or 605, may be removed to a fresh planta- 

 tion, in which they may be planted 6 feet apart ; they 

 will at once occupy half an acre of ground. At the 

 end of sixteen or eighteen years, every alternate row 

 of trees in the first plantation the rood will require 

 to be removed, which will give 302 trees to be 

 planted, 6 feet apart, leaving 303 in the original 

 rood. The 1,210 trees will, by this time, occupy one 

 acre of ground at 6 feet apart. "With proper summer 

 pruning or pinching, they will not require any further 

 change, but continue to grow and bear fruit as long 



