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The labouring classes will gain much useful information 

 how to crop their gardens, to choose and plant the best 

 bearing kinds of fruit trees, and how to keep their apples, &c. 

 agreeably to the valuable article of William Stevenson, Esq. ; 

 thereby adding much to their comforts and the improvement 

 of their morals. 



Lest I intrude on your valuable time and pages, permit 

 me to inform you, for the benefit of your readers, how I keep 

 my apples. Six years ago I had a large crop of the apple 

 we call Golden Knob ; it is known at Covent Garden by the 

 names of Old Maid, or Old Lady, and is the best bearer of 

 any I know. A neighbour of mine, Mr. Woods, on the 9th 

 Nov. 1819, gathered from one tree the immense quantity of 

 68 bushels and a half, not including what fell prematurely, so 

 that there could not have been less than 70 bushels ; the tree is 

 about 45 feet in diameter and 135 in circumference, and stands 

 in a hedge-row upon the estate of William Collyer, Esq. 

 The same year a Mr. Graham had 200 bushels, the produce of 

 only four trees ! That year I tried an experiment to preserve 

 some apples in a ridge of earth, in the same way we do pota- 

 toes in this part of the country. I had a trench dug five feet 

 wide, one foot below the surface of the ground, and 1 2 feet long. 

 I covered the bottom and sides with turf, the grassy side up- 

 wards, and then filled the space with Golden Knobs, and some 

 French Crabs, about c 2\ feet deep in the centre, sloping a 

 little to the sides ; I then covered them close with turf, the 

 grassy side next the fruit, to keep them clean. I next had the 

 ridge covered with mould a foot thick, to keep out the frost, 

 and exclude the external air. In the end of April 1820, 1 had 

 them taken out in fine preservation. I again last Autumn kept 

 50 bushels in the same way with equal success. If you deem 

 this or any part of it worthy of a place in your Gardener's Ma- 

 gazine, it is at your service. I am, dear Sir, yours, &c. 



Robert Donald. 

 Woking Nursery, Aprils. 1826. 



Art. IX. Some Account of the Gardens, and State of Gar- 

 dening in Denmark. By Mr. Jens Petersen, of Copen- 

 hagen, now studying the Art and Practice of Gardening 



in England. 



The climate and circumstances of Denmark are much less 

 favourable to gardening than those of Britain ; yet horticulture 



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