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the best culture is given and numerous weeds always add 

 to the expense and difficulty of cultivation. 



The rows should be laid out the long way so as to make 

 use of horse cultivation wherever possible. If too much 

 is left for handwork, the probabilities are that it will be 

 neglected; and many efforts have failed purely because 

 too little was done by team work and too much left for the 

 hands. If the plat could be so arranged that the rows 

 might run one hundred feet in length, even though they 

 were only four or five rows wide, the results would be better 

 in the end. 



Planting. The work of planting the seeds will depend 

 entirely on whether the seeds are stratified in seed beds or 

 whether planted direct to the nursery row. With apple, 

 pear and quince seed, better results could probably be 

 had by planting direct to the nursery row in the spring. If 

 the seed is clean, a furrow should be made about three inches 

 deep and the seeds scattered along in these and covered up, 

 leaving a little ridge two or three inches high where the 

 row was. The larger seeds where stratified in the seed 

 bed should be moved to similar rows early in the spring. 

 Or they may be left to come up in the seed bed and trans- 

 planted to the nursery row after the second pair of leaves 

 appear. In such cases they would be planted three or 

 four inches apart in the row. The rows should be suf- 

 ficiently wide, three feet is the common width, to permit 

 the use of horse cultivators. 



Setting out Imported Seedlings. If the seedlings are 

 purchased from other sources and are grown simply for the 

 purpose of budding or grafting, then the planting should be 



