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up more room by being properly pruned ; 

 and the same rule may be followed in the 

 shrubbery, at such convenient distances 

 where you can find an open place for 

 the sun to get at the fruit, or if a piece of 

 ground is set apart for a plantation of dwarf 

 apples, the distance I should recommend, 

 would be about twelve feet apart, and then by 

 keeping them properly pruned, they would 

 have plenty of room to grow and receive the 

 nourishment of the sun and air. See Prun- 

 ing. 



DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTING IN BAD SOIL. 



Par. 10. I shall now give directions for 

 planting 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 



