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of room to grow and receive the nourishment of 

 the sun and air. See Pruning. 



DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTING IN BAD SOIL. 



Par. 1 0. I shall now give directions for plant- 

 ing where the apples are not fond of the soil, 

 say the soil is of a gravelly nature, or nearly a 

 bed of gravel. 



You must open a hole at least three feet 

 square and three feet deep, bring in some soil 

 bordering on clay, and put at bottom (which 

 will keep cool) about one foot thick, then fill up 

 the other two feet with rich loam, and plant 

 your tree right in the centre. 



This it may be said is a great deal of trouble, 

 but what is a garden without an apple tree ? and 

 when once done they will last for many years, 

 either in gravelly or sandy soil, in neither of 

 which apples will do well alone. 



It is under the above treatment indispensably 

 necessary to study the sort of stock your apple 

 is grafted on ; it should be the small Paradise 

 stock, for apples grafted on these stocks will 

 bloom beautifully and produce fruit even in pots, 



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