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be adopted by cropping the land with vegeta- 

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

 thing of strong growth i& 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 

 vegetable 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 understand, 

 both for keeping the trees in a healthy state, 

 and likewise for the production of fine fruit, 

 particularly dwarfs, of which I shall first treat; 

 I mean common dwarfs (called by some dwarf 

 standards) and not dwarf trained trees 



It is necessary to commence from the maiden 



