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ing too great length in fast-growing sorts, or by 

 stimulating the roots by excess of water, and too 

 large supplies of manure, because these trees 

 will not readily bear under these conditions, 

 and if once they get into the habit of thus ex- 

 tending, it is surprising how difficult it is to 

 keep them under in pots. 



But with ordinary skill, and the attention 

 required to the common things of life, there 

 need be no apprehension entertained of failure 

 in pot cultivation of fruit trees. There is an 

 annual crop of feeding roots from above, and 

 one from below, and if unpruned, these last 

 would descend into the border, and thence draw 

 too potent nourishment. Lifting the trees in 

 June and in July prevents all this. If the trees 

 be in borders, then annual removal (which is less 

 severe, whatever may be said, than biennial,) 

 has the same effect. The roots are kept com- 

 pact, and a healthy development of spongjoles 

 induced close to the root stem. 



