CHAPTER V. 



SOIL, MANURES, SITUATION, AND ENCLOSURES. 



THE sofl for fruit-trees, as wen as for fcurm crops, should be of good 

 quality. Whatever will produce a vigorous growth of corn and 

 potatoes, win m general be the best for fruit-trees. Sterile soil is 

 m&9m&&*^i\i+friifys*tete}*ttKT,ft)rm&t*a^ 

 lessens in fm*Miify the growth of arm crops, it lessens the qua: 

 and greatly injures the ?**&? of fruit 

 Good soils vary in many particulars ; but as a general rale, one 



It should be deep, to allow the extension of the roots ; dry, or else 

 well drained, to prevent injury from, stagnant water below the sur- 

 face; nrm, and not peary or spongy, to preclude injury or destruction 

 fcvm :>:. 



Few soils exist in this country which would not be much beme* 

 filed, for at decidedly hardy fruits, as the appfe and pear, by enrich- 

 ing. ShaBow soils should be loosened deeply by heavy farrows ; or 



feet wide, where the row of trees is to stand, shooW be rendered in 

 this way deep and fertile for their growth. Manure, if applied, 

 oe thoroughly intermixed wktn the sou by repeated, harrow- 



sion of the fine fibrous roots, is first, to loosen h as deeply as prao- 



tofc a ~ -,\ n ^n mm mt\ *1.M 

 uencn-pKMign ami 



. oed for the intermixture of manure. The previous 



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itsaid. The oiirv trees which wul not bear a h%h 

 those Drought ongmauy from 

 fiable to suftr from the frost of wmter, as the peach, 

 apricot; for roey are stimulated to grow too late in me 



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