108 On Ticmmg Apple Tt'ces, and Maldng Older. 



portunlty to the head to spread to a larger size. This ope- 

 ration of shortening the young .shoots must be repeated in 



spring, and perhaps in a third spring also 



^_r 



o 



ciire in the preceding winters, to displace all such small 

 branches, as cross or intercept the progress of others. 



The second October following this period, those trees will 

 become fit to plant out in an orchard; and the business of 

 the nurseryman will nearly be ended.=:-= Hence it 



app 



tliat ni nnie or ten years, an apple tree might be raised from 

 the kernel to its plantation into the orchard; and of such 

 kmd of fruit as may be required or wished.f 



It would amount to a tautology to repeat the necessary 

 soil for an orchard, or the proper method of planting such 



been said on soil and transplantation, 



in the foregoing part of this essay: It remains therefor 



to 



* The site of an orchard has been so happily expressed by the English Tomonian 

 Earn, that I .hall take the liberty of speaking thereof in his own lan^ua^e. 



" Whoe'er expects his lab'rlng trees should bend 

 With fruitage, and a kindly harvest yield, 

 Be this his first concern; to find a tract 

 Impervious to the ^Inds, begirt >vlth hills 

 That intercept the Ilyperhorean blasts 

 Tempestuous, and cold Eurus' nippin. force 

 mxious to feeble buds : But to the west 

 Let him free entrance grant." 



^^^^^ '' ""' 'T''^ '' ''''' --^' --^ -Ight be said of the pro- 

 The .ritlr ^vin onlv remltT. ™'"'°''^ ' '"^^'""S '^' ^'^'^ to be raised for sale. 



at proper distances for " ftL ZT^ 1 '"' ''" ""'^'^ '''' ^^°^^^' ^^'^^^° ^^^"^^'^ 

 trees ; .hich, at the -.^T " '' ''' '''' 



amount tn . «. I '"' ''^ '^''"-' P"'^^ of one skill 



remain 



amount to £487 10. ^ ^=^ P™^ ot one shilUng and six pence a tree, will 



ve 



only ! ^ ^ ^ ''' ^'"^^^°"^^ P^^fit for an acre of land thus employed a few 



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