PACT NUMBER THREE. 



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or ten inches deep in the earth, leaving simply a fair sprouting 

 space above the surface. These slips, if the ground be rich, 

 fine, compact, and kindly disposed, will also sprout and grow' 

 forming roots downward, and shoots upward, and this too,' 

 as experience teaches, in six or eight cases, as an average, in 

 every ten. 



THE RENOVATED PEACH TREE. 



