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ing apple-seedlings, to procure pomace from cider-mills; 

 wash out the seeds and plant promiscuously. If the strongest 

 seedlings only, thus obtained, are selected for setting out good 

 trees would be the result ; but it would be better to obtain 

 apples for this purpose from trees of known hardiness and fine 

 growth. The same remarks will apply to the selection of 

 pear-seed and cherry, plum, and peach stones. 



Different modes are adopted for obtaining apple-seeds 

 easily from the pomace. The following is similar to that 

 used by most nursery- 

 men. Make a box five 

 feet wide, eight or nine 

 feet long, and ten 

 inches deep (Fig. 204) ; 

 leave the lower end, /", 



one inch lower than the 

 i ,- , FIG. 204. Apple-seed Washer. 



sides, for the water to 



flow over. Place this box in the bed of a brook or stream, o 

 cross-bars or scantling, with a dam above to collect the water 

 into a trough carrying the water into the box, and project- 

 ing six inches over it. This trough would be made of boards 

 twelve inches wide nailed together, and the stream should 

 be large enough to nearly fill it when flowing gently. To 

 prevent the water from dashing into the box too furiously, 

 two boards are first nailed together as shown at b, one board 

 being eighteen inches by two feet, and the other eighteen 

 inches by one foot. The longer board is placed on the top of 

 the spout, and the shorter at right angles across the lower end 

 of the spout. This serves to throw the water perpendicularly 

 downward into the box, and at the same time to spread it out 

 into a thin sheet. By moving this board up or down the 

 spout, the quantity of water pouring into the box may be 

 easily controlled. 



One man stands on the board e, which extends across the 

 box; and the other carries and deposits the pomace (well 

 pounded to pieces) into the box at d, one or two bushels at a 

 time. The man on the box then stirs the pomace rapidly with 

 a four-tined fork, and throws out the straws. The pomace 

 floats over the lower end (which is an inch lower than the 

 sides), and the seeds fall to the bottom. A few back-strokes 



