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the rows is wide, for the purpose of being worked 

 with the plough, and cropped with roots or what- 

 ever the farmer prefers, or he can grow Straw- 

 berries or more bush fruits if he chooses to raise or 

 procure them. He can, in a word, either make 

 the whole into a fruit garden and keep it as such, 

 or grow vegetables for market, or roots for stock, 

 so long as there is space between the trees ; then 

 as these spread the land can be sown down for 

 forming an orchard on grass. Whatever method 

 may be adopted will be of advantage to the tenant, 

 and the trees, being of good varieties, will enhance 

 the value of the land. The owner having pur- 

 chased the trees, planted and staked them well, 

 will also prune them for a year or two, till good 

 heads are formed; the tenant can then easily 

 manage them ; and he can have no pretence to 

 a claim for compensation when he leaves, no 

 matter how valuable the trees may be. The 

 plan is an excellent one, worthy of more general 

 adoption. It is perfectly just as between landlord 

 and tenant, and may be of service to both. 



A Society's Example. Provincial Horticul- 

 tural Societies may usefully aid in the work which 

 it is the object of the writer to promote. He had 

 long been aware of the admirable practice of the 

 Granthara Horticultural Society in distributing fruit 



