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the trenclL and treading it gently on to the roots. 

 The following sorts are well adapted for this bush 

 culture, hut the upright varieties recommended for 

 pyramids form nice compact bushes.' 



Brabant Bollefleur, kitchen April 



Cornish Aromatic, dessert May- 

 Early Ilavvest, dessert August 



Emperor Alexander, kitchen Octoben 



Gravenstein, kitchen or dessert November 



Hawthornden, kitchen ( August to 



I November 

 Joanneting (white), dessert. July- 

 Melon Apple, dessert. February 



More de M6nago, kitchen. December 



Nonesuch, kitchen October 



Pomme Eoyale, kitchen or dessert April 



Roinette du Canada, kitchen or dessert May 



Eibston Pippin, dessert December 



South Carolina Pippin, kitchen December 



Spring Eibston Pippin, dessert May 



Victoria, dessert April 



Waltham Abbey Seedling, kitchen December 



There is no mode of apple culture more interesting 

 than bush culture. On the next page I annex a 

 sketch of a plantation of Cox's Orange Pippin (Fig. 

 12), of one hundred trees ; they were planted in the 

 spring of 1862. They bore a fine crop in 1863 of 

 most beautiful fruit, and in 1864 gave a crop almost 

 too abundant. 



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Our market gardeners, as a rule, are very deficient 

 in their knowledge of fruit-tree culture, and they have 

 much to learn. The usual practice with them is to 

 plant standard or half standard trees in rows, some 

 twenty or thirty feet apart, and between them goose- 



' These dwarf bushes are liable to be gnawed by rabbits and hares in exposed 

 gardens. The best of all preventives Is to paint them with soot and milk, well 

 mixed; or make a fence with galvanized wire netting, round the garden in which 

 they are planted. 



