28 CULTIVATION OF STANDARD APPLES. 



or corn, but not too near the tree, for any thing 

 of strong growth is very injurious; those who 

 plant standards in gardens, must be guided by 

 the spots they can best select to plant the trees 

 where they will do the least injury to the vege- 

 table crops. 



It would be very wrong to plant standard 

 apple orchards on very inferior land; and on 

 good land I would by no means recommend very 

 large holes, for the ground will naturally sink, 

 thereby causing the tree to be considerably 

 lower than it ought, which is very injurious, 

 particularly if sunk below the graft ; at the same 

 time they should be made sufficiently large to 

 let the roots in easily, and the earth at the bot- 

 tom of the hole finely loosened full one foot 

 deep before the tree is put in. 



PRUNING OF DWARF APPLES. 



Par. 12. The pruning of apple trees is a 

 most important thing to attend to, and to un- 

 derstand, both for keeping the trees in a healthy 

 state, and likewise for the production of fine 

 fruit, particularly dwarfs, of which I shall first 



