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living near London. Apple bushes, always very pretty 

 and productive trees, may be planted six feet apart, 

 row from row, and four feet apart in the rows. If two 

 or three years old when planted, they will begin to 

 bear even the first season after planting. They should 

 be kept from the attacks of the green aphis in summer 



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by dressing the young shoots with quassia mixture, 

 given in a note to page 115, and from the woolly aphis 

 by Gishurst Compound, fir-tree oil, or paraffin, mentioned 

 in page 77. The principal feature in this culture is 

 summer pinching, which must regularly be attended to, 

 once in June, and once at the end of September ; this is 

 done by pinching or cutting off the terminal bud of 



