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large plantation of these trees, should be well provided 

 with heaps of compost a year old, amd give each tree a 

 peck to half a bushel before the setting in of winter 

 every year. This will maintain their vigor, and ensure 

 large and regular crops of fine fruit. Directions for 

 pruning and forming the heads of standard trees, will be 

 treated of under the general head of pruning. 



SECTION 3. THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



The fruit garden is a plantation of fruit trees intended 

 to supply the family with fruit. In some cases, where a 

 large supply of fruit is wanted, and the proprietor has 

 land and means to warrant it, a certain portion of ground 

 is wholly devoted to it ; and in others, it forms a separate 

 compartment of the kitchen garden, or is mixed with it 

 the fruit trees occupying the borders or outsides of the 

 compartments, and the culinary vegetables the interior. 

 The latter is most general, in this country, at the present 

 time. In a country like ours, so well adapted to fruit 

 culture, where almost every citizen of every rank and 

 calling not only occupies but owns a garden, and, as a 

 general thing, possesses sufficient means to enable him to 

 devote it to the culture of the higher and better class of 

 garden productions, the fruit garden is destined to be. 

 if it is not already, an object of great importance. In 

 the old countries of Europe, the rich alone, or those com- 

 paratively so, are permitted to enjoy such luxury; for 

 land is so dear that working people are unable to pur- 

 chase it, and if they are, they are either unable to stock 

 it with trees, or their necessities compel them to devote it 

 to the production of the coarsest articles of vegetable 

 food that can be produced in the greatest bulk. It is not 

 so in America. Here every industrious man, at the age 

 of five-and-twenty, whatever may be his pursuits, may, 



