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cultivator, namely, that of planting in a proper 

 manner, which is often little attended to or thought 

 of : trees are often planted in a careless manner, and 

 are merely left to chance in culture, which is the 

 very thing that should meet the most strict attention 

 in young trees. There are indeed but few things 

 that require a more strict attention than a young 

 plantation of fruit trees, which should be well work- 

 ed among and manured almost every year. The 

 reverse is often seen — young thrifty trees being 

 planted in an uncultivated piece of ground, and per- 

 haps neither cultivated nor manured for some years 

 after the first introduction, when age in most cases 

 rather decreases than increases their size and vigor. 

 It is in the infant state that trees and plants of all 

 kinds and denominations require the best culture 

 and nutriment, to expand their organs, and form a 

 good habit ; indeed, the first formation is the very 

 essence of every other expectation that is to be real- 

 ized in culture, either good or bad ; therefore, the 

 result will be in accordance to the first management. 



In closing this article, it will be proper to state, 

 that it is intended as a text only, to what is to fol- 

 low ; the principal object of the treatise being to 

 condense each separate part, under its individual 

 head, in order to guard against repetition as much as 

 possible : — therefore, the reader must not suspect 

 the use of a quantity of paper, or number of w^ords, 

 to be the object of the author ; but a short and plain 

 manner of coming at once at the subjects hereafter 

 to be treated upon. 



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