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CHAPTER V. 



On the season and method of planting fruit trees. 



Fruit trees may be planted from the fall 

 of the leaf until the rising of the sap in 

 spring, but an autumn planting is preferable 

 to any other when the soil is a suitable one. 

 Nevertheless it is advisable to plant at differ- 

 ent times according to the nature of the soil. 

 If the borders are prepared agreeably to the 

 directions given, in the Chapter on the choice 

 of soil and on the formation of fruit tree 

 borders, and have been formed such a length 

 of time as to be fit to plant in at the latter 

 end of October, or the beginning of Novem- 

 ber, this is unquestionably the best season 

 for the performance of this work. For if the 

 trees be planted then, they will in many 

 cases have pushed forth some new roots 

 before the commencement of severe weather, 

 and will have partly established themselves 

 before the moving of the sap in the spring 

 following; which will greatly assist them in 

 making new wood the ensuing summer, and 

 this will be considerably more vigorous, than 

 if planting them had been deferred until 

 spring. Therefore planting the trees at this 



