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the progress that they have made in the nursery ; 

 they should be suffered to continue there until 

 they have grown to a tolerable size, and to the 

 height just mentioned as proper for standards. 

 The ground, where they are to be planted, should 

 be well ploughed or trenched, aind the trees 

 planted, at first, in rows six feet apart, and the 

 same distance from tree to tree in the rows, in 

 the quincunx order, and thus to remain till they 

 come into bearing. This will be necessary, as 

 there is no dependance on the sort of fruit that 

 trees raised from seed may produce. After you 

 have made choice of those which bear the best 

 fruit, the others may be planted out for timber, 

 or cut down for stakes, or any other purpose. 

 The trees left for bearing must be thinned, by 

 taking out every other tree in the remaining rows, 

 as they increase in size, till they stand at the 

 distance proper for full-grown trees; which may 

 be from twenty-four to forty-eight feet, according 

 to the richness of the soil and the progress which 

 the trees make. 



In trimming the stems of Walnut-trees, cut off 

 the shoots and small branches close to the bole : 

 and in lopping, cutting out cross branches, 

 or such as are damaged by winds and other 

 incidents, always cut at a fork or eye, otherwise 

 part of the branch will die and injure the tree. 

 But, whether only a part or the whole of a 

 branch be cut oft', the composition ought immedi- 

 ately to be applied. 



