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their Apple-trees after the season of drawing for 

 sale is over. 



Messrs. Gray and Wear liave headed a great 

 many of such trees as were formerly thrown to 

 the faggot-pile, and have been amply recompensed 

 for their trouble. Trees thus headed down, pro- 

 vided the stems be strong, will, in the first and 

 second year, produce as much fruit as will refund 

 the purchase money ; besides, a great deal of time 

 will be saved, which would be lost by planting 

 younger trees. 



If you can procure trees of the above descrip- 

 tion that have been headed down three or more 

 years, they will be all covered with fruit-buds, and, 

 if carefully taken up and planted in the Autumn, 

 if the season proves favourable, you will have a 

 tolerable crop of fruit the first year. Such trees 

 must not be headed down like maiden trees, but 

 only thinned off w^here the branches run across 

 and rub against one another, which should never 

 be suffered. 



From what has been said, I hope that gentle- 

 men and others will not be blind to their own in- 

 terest ; but that they will give the practice a fair 

 trial, which, if properly executed, will not fail to 

 turn out to their satisfaction. Independent of the 

 great ^advantage to be derived from the increase 

 of crops, instead of decayed, moss-grown trees, 

 bearing only a few small hard and kernelly fruit, 

 they will have the pleasure of seeing fine healthy 

 clean trees loaded with large beautiful and well- 



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