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third. After they begin to grow, the trees will re- 

 quire due supplies of water ; and as the roots are in 

 a sort of prison, the water given them should be 

 rich. To make this manured water, mix it with 

 one-third of its quantity of the brown drainage 

 from dunghills, or what may be found in farmyards; 

 or, if such cannot be had, collect a bushel or two of 

 horse-droppings, which put in a large tub, together 

 w^ith a handful or two of soot, fill up with water, and 

 stir it frequently. In the course of a few hours it 

 may be given to the pots once or twice in the week. 

 It should not be allowed to become stale ; the fresher 

 it is the better. This liquid the author has found 

 more nutritive to potted trees than any thing else, 

 and therefore can safely recommend it for every kind 

 of fruit grown in pots. 



About Michaelmas following, the mulch should be 

 removed ; the pots taken up, and replunged ; taking 

 care not to injure the surface roots, for these are of 

 the greatest service to the plants. In the following 

 spring little pruning will be necessary, only shorten- 

 ing some of the strongest shoots. In the course of 

 the summer, flower-buds will be formed ; and when 

 this takes place, the trees are, at the proper season, 

 fit to be taken into the cherry-house, or some such 

 similar place, where they can have abundance of 

 moisture and moderate heat (say from 56 to 65 deg. of 

 Fahrenheit) ; for neither apples, plums, nor cherries, 

 can bear violent forcing or dry heat. 



If such potted trees have been housed and borne 

 fruit, it is well to remove them to the open air as 



