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with them. The plain truth is, those fruits contain 

 much less sugar than many other fruits which ripen 

 later in the year. The difference in the quantity of 

 sugar in different juices of the apple, is most easily 

 ascertained : take one pint, wine measure, of the 

 juice as soon as it expressed from the apple ; that 

 juice which weighs the most contains the most sugar, 

 and will, of course, make the strongest cider. A wine 

 pint of juice, to make good and strong cider, ought 

 to weigh from seventeen ounces to seventeen ounces 

 and a half; if it does not weigh seventeen ounces, 

 the cider, we may be quite sure, will be poor and 

 weak. But we shall have occasion to revert to this 

 subject again. 



Having determined the site and soil for an orchard, 

 we may now say a few words on the mode of planting 

 it. And on this subject too, opinions are very va- 

 rious : most persons, however, prefer purchasing their 

 trees of the particular sorts which they may wish to 

 rear ; and purchased trees from those who rear them 

 for the purpose of sale, answer in general very well : 

 it is even supposed, that a change of soil from that in 

 which the trees have grown, is also very often advan- 

 tageous ; and as few, in planting an orchard, would 

 choose to wait till they have produced a sufficient 

 number of trees under their own immediate nursing, 

 the trees to be planted in an orchard must, of course, 

 be bought. But were we about to plant an orchard, 

 and disposed to wait the rearing of trees under our 

 own inspection, we should proceed thus : 



Let the space in which every tree is designed to 



