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they may be set three or four feet apart. 

 They are subject to the same diseases and 

 depredations of insects to which apples on 

 free stocks (i. e. apple seedling stocks) are li- 

 able. There is nothing very peculiar in the 

 management of the dwarf-apple. Its place 

 is the garden, not the field ; still less will it 

 answer to put these little trees in grass-ground, 

 or to subject them to rough usage. 



Very large si^ed apples, such as the Twen- 

 ty Ounce and the Gloria Mundi ; fine looking 

 apples, such as Leland's Spice, the Lady Ap- 

 ple, Maiden's Blush, Siberian Crab, &c., are 

 pretty for this mode of cultivation. 







