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uf 6 Apple trees, 6 Apricots, 6 Cherries > 6 Nec- 

 tarines, 30 Peaches, 6 Pears, and 10 Plums ; and 

 that thetrelises, on the Southern sides ot Plate 

 No. 8 and 9, are intended to mark the places for 

 4 Grape -Vines, there being another Plate to ex- 

 plain more fully the object and dimensions of this 

 trelis work. 



300. APPLE. Apples are usually grafted oil 

 crab stocks(zz Paragraph 281 ;) but, when you 

 do not want the trees to grow tall and large, it 

 is better to raise stocks from the seed of some 

 Apple not much given to produce large wood. 

 Perhaps the Fall-Pippin seed may be as good as 

 any. When you have planted the tree, as di- 

 rected in Paragraphs 283 to 289, and when the 

 time comet for shortening the head, cut it off so 

 as to leave only five or six joints or buds. These 

 will send out shoots, which will become limbs. 

 The tree will be what they call, in England, a 

 dwarf standard ; and, of this description are to 

 be all the 70 trees in the garden. As to pruning 

 see PEACH ; for, the pruning of all these dwarf 

 standards is nearly the same. The sorts of Ap- 

 ples are numerous, and every body knows, pretty 

 well, which are the best. In my garden I should 

 only have six apple trees ; and, therefore they 

 should be of the finest for the season at which 

 they are eaten. The earliest apple is the Juna- 

 ting^ the next the Summer Pearmain. Besides 

 these I would have a Doctor-apple ^ a Fall- Pip- 

 pin, a Newtoivn Pippin and a Greening. The 

 quantity would not be very large, that six trees 

 would produce ; yet it would be considerable, and 

 the quality would be exquisitely fine. I would 

 ; suffer too great a number of fruit to remain 



