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trees, as they have not the full advantages ^ 

 from rains and dews which standards have; , 

 but in very dry seasons it is indispensible^. 

 for either wall or standard trees. If the ) 

 weather continues dry during spring, but 

 more particularly in summer, the watering 

 of the roots should be regularly practised. 

 Wall trees ought on no account to be neg- 

 lected, they ought to be watered once a fort- 

 night, and if the weather be very droughty, 

 once a week. Trees on the south aspect, 

 require more watering than those against 

 any other; but this must be regulated ac- 

 cording to the state of the border. Those 

 on the north will not require watering more 

 than two or three times during spring and 

 summer, because the sun does not operate so 

 powerfully upon the border on that aspect J 

 as any of the others, consequently the soil\ 

 is more moist, and too much wet would ( 

 retard, rather than promote the fertility of) 

 the trees. 



In watering trees of the stone fruit, parti- 

 cularly Peaches, Nectarines, and Apricots, I 

 omit it during such time as the fruit is under 

 the operation of stoning, which when it is 

 completed, I commence the watering again. 

 My reason for omitting it at this time is, that 

 if much water were then applied, the greater 

 part of the fruit would fall off, because at that 

 time there is a sufficiency of that kind of 

 matter of which the stone is afterwards per- 



