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This will be by placing the tallest growers at the back, 

 the middle growers next, and the shortest growers in front. 

 By this mode of arrangement, the shorter and middle grow- 

 ers will receive their due proportion of sun, without being 

 interrupted by those which attain the greatest degree of ele- 

 vation. The necessity of such an arrangement as this must 

 be obvious to those who are aware of the advantage to be 

 derived, in wet and cloudy seasons, in having this delicate 

 and tender fruit fully exposed to the sun, and receiving a 

 free and plentiful admission of air. 



In making such a plantation as this, it will be advisable, 

 if possible, to have the rows extend from east to ivest. These 

 should be four feet at least from each other ; and supposing 

 one row only can be allotted to each sort, and that six rows 

 are to form the extent of the plantation, then the first or 

 north row may be planted with the Cornish, No. 9 ; the 

 second with Woodward's Red Globe, No. 22 ; the third with 

 Red Antwerp, No. 3 ; the fourth with Yellow Antwerp, No. 4; 

 the fifth with Cane, No. 6, 7, or 8 ; the sixth with Double 

 Bearing, No. 10 or 11. 



The stools in the first and second row should be four feet 

 apart; those in the third and fourth, three feet and a half; 

 and those in the fifth and sixth, three feet. In planting,young 

 suckers should be made choice of; and if in plenty, three of 

 these should be allowed to each stool, placing them in a tri- 

 angle of six inches apart. If fruit are not wanted the first 

 year, the plants will gain considerable strength by being cut 

 down within six inches of the ground as soon as planted, 

 instead of leaving them three or four feet high in order to ob- 

 tain from them a crop of fruit. 



In selecting the sorts for the above six rows, it is inten- 

 ded only to show their arrangement as far as regards their 

 relative heights, not as a proper proportion of each ; because 

 a single row of yellow-fruited will not, by many, be deemed 

 sufficient for five rows of red. 



When a larger collection is intended to be planted out, the 

 additional varieties may readily be placed so as to corre- 

 spond with those which I have selected as a specimen. 



After the stools are established, and fruit of the largest 

 size acquired, care must be taken to select the strongest 

 canes, and a few of these only from each plant, in proportion 

 to its strength, shortening each to about four-fifths of its 

 original height : these should be supported singly by a small 

 stake to each. For general purposes stakes are unneces- 



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