OF APPLES. l^S 



black vegetable mould, which will be the best ma- 

 nure for the borders against the walls. 



A s:ood coat of this manure once in two or 

 three years will be sufficient for the borders where 

 the wall trees stand, and much better than dung, 

 which I by no means approve of for trees, unless 

 it be perfectly rotten and mixed up with mould. 



Some of the leaves will be found not quite 

 rotten at the bottom of the beds ; these may be 

 mixed up with fresh dry leaves from the park, 

 garden, &c. and used for making new beds. 



Of Grafting old Apple- Trees. 



It frequently happens, that through some mis- 

 take or other, after waiting ten or twelve years for 

 a tree to come into a bearing state, it is then 

 found that the fruit is neither fit for the table nor 

 kitchen ; in such case, we always graft them the 

 following Spring, observing to graft on the finest 

 and healthiest shoots, and as near as possible to 

 the old graft, and where the cross-shoots break 

 out : by so doing, you will have some fruit the 

 second year ; and in the third, if properly ma- 

 naged, you will have as much as on a maiden tree 

 of fifteen years standing. 



The canker, if any, must be carefully pared off 

 the branch, and the scion must be taken from a 

 sound healthy tree. 



Whenever an incision is made for budding or 

 grafting, from that moment the canker begins. I 

 would therefore recommend to those employed in 



