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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, 

 as the root is of a fine fibrous nature, and will 

 remain in a small compass ; but the crab is natu- 

 rally a strong rooted tree, and would soon over- 

 run the boundaries of the hole made for it, and 

 consequently not flourish after : in fact, apples 

 grafted on paradise stocks are greatly recom- 

 mended as dwarfs, where you do not want the 

 trees to grow large, for they generally bear 

 very freely on those stocks, and although the 

 fruit will come very fine, they do not produce 

 near such strong wood as those grafted on the 

 crab ; in all cases in planting of apples be care- 

 ful not to plant them too deep, but merely 

 cover the roots well. 



CULTIVATION OF STANDARD APPLES. 



Par. 1 1 . The culture of standard apples is so 

 generally known in this country, it is not neces- 

 sary to make many observations ; at the same 

 time a few may not be considered superfluous. 



