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I List of the several fruits ; to speak of the different 

 j sorts of each ; and of the mode of preserving them ; 

 'i but the stocks and pruning- vary, in some cases ; 

 M and, therefore, as I go along, I shall have to speak 

 I of them. Before, however, I enter on this Alpha- 

 I betical List, let me observe, that only a part of the 

 fruits mentioned in it are proposed to be raised in 

 j the garden ; and that the 70 trees, shown in the 

 ] Plate I, are intended to mark the paces, and, in 

 : some degree, the form, of 6 Apple trees, 6 Apricots, 

 !) 6 Cherries, 6 Nectarines, 30 Peaches, 6 Pears, and 

 I 10 Plums ; and, that the trelises, on the Southern 

 'j sides of Plats, No. 8 and 9, are intended to mark 

 I the places for 4 Grape-Vines, there being another 

 j Plate to explain more fully the object and dimen- 

 sions of this trelis work. 

 \ 300. APPLE. — Apples are usually grafted on 

 ji crab-stocks (See Paragraph 281 ;) but, when you do 

 I not want the trees to grow tall and large, it is bet- 

 ^ ter to raise stocks from the seed of some Apple not 

 \ much given to produce large wood. Perhaps the 

 Fall-Pippin seed may be as good as any. When 

 i you have planted the tree, as directed in Paragraphs 

 I 283 to 289, and when the time comes for shorten- 

 ing the head, cut it off so as to leave only five or 

 six joints or buds. These will send out shoots, 

 ^ which will become lim.bs. The tree will be what 

 I they call, in England, a dwarf standard ; and, of 

 , this description are to be all the 70 trees in the 

 garden. — As to pruning^ see Peach ; for, the pru- 

 ning of all these dwarf standards is nearly the 

 same. — The sorts of Apples are numerous, and 

 1 every body knows, pretty well, which are the best. 

 I In my garden I should only have six apple trees ; 



and, theref re, they should be of the finest for the 

 1 season at wTiich they are eaten. The earliest apple 



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