74 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN". 



as they are properly cultivated. The groat advantage 

 reaped by the planter is the constant productiveness 

 of his trees ; from the seconcPyear after planting they 

 will be alwaj-s " paying their way." 



The unprejudiced fruit cultivator will quickly find 

 out the great advantage of my mode of apple and 

 pear cultivation. 



In the usual old-fashioned mode, Standard apple 

 trees are planted in orchards at 20 feet apart, or lOS 

 trees to the acre ; if the soil be good and the trees 

 ■properly planted, and the planter a healthy, middle- 

 aged man, he may hope, at the end of his threescore 

 and ten, to see his trees commencing to bear, and may 

 die with the reflection that he has left a valuable 

 orchard as a legacy to his children, but has not had 

 much eiijiiynieiit of it during his life. Now, although, 

 like most fathers, I have a strong wish to benclit raj 

 children, I hold the idea that one ought alsD to think 

 of one's own gratification ; and so I have planted, and 

 recommend "the planting of such as will give me ■y'rr,'r 

 satisfaction, yet leave a fertile legacy to my chil- 

 dren. 



A French poniologist, who paid me a visit last 

 year, said, " Ah ! now I find an Englishman planting 

 for himself as well as for his children :" and wont on 

 to say that he was struck hy seeing in England so 

 many Standard trees in market gardens, the jilanters 

 of which could have deri\ed but small benetit i'rom. 

 them; and tlie a]ij>aront ignoraui'e of fruit ganlening 

 as a lucrative oecnjKitioTi. This he, in fact, imputed 

 t<i ciiir climate, wliieli. Frenchman-like, he thought 

 totally unfit fur li-iiil culture in the open air, yet felt 



