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PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



second (6) represents good planting in drained 

 land. The third (c) shows how planting should be 

 done in wet ground, in which water may stand with- 

 in two feet of the surface. An ordinary man who 

 has not been taught how to plant trees, will almost 



Fig. 25. PLANTING APPLES (see page 71). 



certainly proceed as if digging a hole for a post, 

 push the roots down in it a foot below the surface, 

 cover them thickly with manure, stamp it down, 

 pile the soil up around the stem, then, if in a grass- 

 field, place on the grass in the form of a neat 

 mound. The tree may not die the first season, 

 but it is impossible it can flourish with roots 

 twisted in, and surrounded with soil almost as firm 

 as a wall, while the mound effectually excludes 

 moisture. Trees innumerable have been prevented 



