55 



sary process, is to wash the seeds out of the 

 pomace, before sowing them. 



During the next summer, keep the young 

 trees clean 'of weeds, working between the 

 drills with a horse-plough or cultivator. If 

 the plants spring up very thick, it is good 

 economy to pull up and throw away a portion 

 of them. By the second or -third spring, ac- 

 cording to the soil and cultivation, about 

 three-fourths of the seedlings will be large 

 enough to be set out in nursery rows; the 

 other one-fourth, or thereabouts, being of a 

 dwarfish or stunted growth, should be thrown 

 away, as worse than worthless. 



Those which are to be planted out in the 

 nursery, will be from one-eighth to three- 

 fourths of an inch in diameter, at the surface 

 of the -ground. They should be taken up, 

 their tap-roots shortened, and three or four 

 inches of their tops cut off; then they should 

 be set in straight rows, one foot apart in the 

 row, the rows being three or four feet apart. 



The best soil, in which to sow the seeds or 

 set the young trees of the apple, is a strong 

 deep loam, rather moist than dry say a soil 

 that would produce a large crop of Indian 

 corn. 



