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may be kept perfectly well for twelve months, when 

 they become an excellent sweatmeat. 



Trench and prepare borders and quarters ; and trans- 

 plant fruit trees against walls, and standards and 

 dwarfs in orchards ; open quarters and borders in the 

 fruit garden. 



Plums and Cherries planted out at this time will 

 make fresh roots during the autumn ^nd mild part of 

 the winter, and grow with much more vigour when 

 headed down in the spring, than those planted out a 

 month or more afterwards. 



It will not, however, be advisable to plant these at 

 this season, after a cold wet summer, unless the leaves 

 will come clean off by drawing the hand upwards from 

 the bottom of the shoot to its extremity. 



Plant out cuttings of Gooseberries and Currants, as 

 directed under that head. 



The fruit room at this time will require particular 

 attention as to the distribution of the fruit, as every 

 sort of Apple and Pear should be kept by itself. 



In order to keep some of the more valuable Apples 

 in a perfect state to a late period of the season, they 

 should hang till they can be readily detached from the 

 tree. They should then be placed in casks or boxes, 

 as they are gathered, beginning with a layer of 

 thoroughly dry pit sand in the bottom, then a layer of 

 Apples, placed close to each other, then another layer 

 of sand, just sufficient to cover the fruit, and no mofle, 

 and so continuing alternately, till the cask or box is 

 full, finishing with a covering of sand. These should 

 be placed in the fruit room ; where they may remain 

 undisturbed till the others of the same kind kept on the 

 shelves are nearly done. This method has been prac- 

 tised many years ago at Holkham, where I have tasted 

 the Golden Harvey Apple and some others, so kept, 

 in as high a state of perfection in the month of May 



