APPLES AS BUSHES FOR MAEKET GARDENS 85 



varieties as Bedfordshire Foundling, Blenheim Orange, 

 and Warner's King should have more space, be planted 

 twelve feet apart, and a row of black currants or goose- 

 berries planted between the rows, as some yQars will 

 elapse before the apple trees take entire possession of 

 the ground. One sort of apple, the Manx Oodlin, grows 

 so slowly and produces so abundantly that the plan- 

 tation need not be more than six feet in the rows, and 

 may be planted four feet plant from plant ; with annual 

 manuring large quantities may be obtained ; the variety 

 is very handsome and marketable, but it has the defect, 

 in my soil at least, of producing fruit of irregular size. 

 J?he proper method of planting and managing these 

 bush apple trees is exactly that recommended for bush 

 pear trees on quince stocks. 



The land for these orchards should be thoroughly 

 well cleaned before planting, and if wet and heavy 

 should be drained. It is not necessary to trench, holes 

 opened for the trees will answer ; this should be done a 

 month before planting ; well rotted manure should be 

 mixed with the soil previous to planting. 



It will be seen that what I propose is in reality a 

 Nursery Orchard, which may be made to furnish fruit 

 and trees for a considerable number of years. To fuUy 

 comprehend this we must suppose a rood of ground 

 planted as I have described. In the course of eight 

 or ten years half of these may be removed to a fresh 

 plantation, in which they may be planted six feet 

 apart. With proper summer pruning they will last for 



