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that they may be straight ; for a nursery-man 

 who has his trees in crooked rows, deserves to 

 be called a , or some worse name. 



Deep tillage is essential to the success of 

 cultivating trees. Nursery land ought to be 

 ploughed and subsoiled, to the depth of from 

 a foot to twenty inches, and there is little dan- 

 ger of too highly enriching it. All stones 

 larger than a hen's egg should be picked off. 

 The best nursery land for fruit trees generally, 

 is that which would produce a hundred bush- 

 els of Indian Corn to the acre. Subsoil 

 ploughing, although little practised, should be 

 regarded as almost indispensable. 



The highest and driest land of a nursery 

 should be occupied with peaches and cherries ; 

 then pears; still lower down, apples and 

 plums; and lastly, the quince and grape, 

 which will bear, though they do not need, a 

 molster soil than some of the others. 



