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of the class first named, belonging to the foreign 

 species, of which I have tested many varieties. 

 I expect to set out this year rows of Brinckle's 

 Orange, Franconia, Hudson River Antwerp, and 

 others. For this class I should make the ground 

 very rich, deep, and mellow. I should prefer to set 

 out the plants in the autumn, from the middle 

 of October to the tenth of November; if not then, 

 in early spring the earlier the better while the 

 buds are dormant. I should have the rows four 

 feet apart; and if the plants were to be grown 

 among the smaller fruit-trees, I should maintain a 

 distance from them of at least seven feet. I should 

 use only young plants, those of the previous sum- 

 mer's growth, and set them in the ground about as 

 deeply as they stood when taken up, say three 

 or four inches of earth above the point from which 

 the roots branched. I should put two well-rooted 

 plants in each hill, and this would make the hills 

 four feet apart each way. By " hills " I do not 

 mean elevations of ground. This should be kept 

 level throughout all future cultivation. I should 

 cut back the canes or stems of the plants to six 

 inches. Thousands of plants are lost or put back 

 in their growth by leaving two or three feet of the 

 canes to grow the first year. Never do this. The 

 little fruit gained, thus prematurely always entails 

 a hundred-fold of loss. Having set out the plants, 



