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from grazing animals generally (colts ought never to be 

 seen inside an orchard, as these are most mischievous and 

 destructive), and also rabbits and hares. Nothing answers 

 better than three stout stakes, each disposed 2oin. to 2ft. 

 from the tree stem, and equidistant, with barbed wire 



ANOTHER TYPE OF GRASS ORCHARD PLANTED WITH 

 STANDARD TREES. 



(1) Apple trees. (2) Plum trees. (3) Pear trees. 



wound thinly around them. Sometimes only two stakes are 

 used, but in this case the wire is dangerously near to the 

 tree stems ; and if the latter get loose, as they are too often 

 allowed to do, the bark is liable to be badly injured by con- 

 tact with the wire. Where barbed wire is objected to, 



