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and has been planted upwards of forty years ; is a 

 kitchen fruit, and known by the name of the Dove- 

 ridge Nonsuch. 



Dwarf Apph Trees are such as are worked low, 

 and upon paradise stocks , to correct an over-vigo- 

 rous growth. They are intended for walls, espaliers, 

 or for the borders in kitchen gardens, where they are 

 wished to grow like low round bushes ; or trained in 

 any dwarfish form. The knife management is simple, 

 consisting of a due regulation of the branches at first, 

 by disbudding, shortening, or cutting out redundant 

 shoots. Such dwarfs generally begin bearing on the 

 third or fourth year, after which they seldom require 

 much pruning. 



Dwarfs are preferred for planting in high exposed 

 Situations, and more especially upon the western sea 

 coast, where strong sea breezes prevail. So as the 

 branches are out of the reach of sheep, is all that is 

 necessary ; and these low squatting trees seldom miss 

 yielding plentiful crops. 



D^varf trees (and if pears, on quince stocks) are 

 also trained after two French modes. The first is 

 called hoop-training ; that is, a circle of stakes, five 

 or six feet high, are driven round, and about 

 two feet distant from the stem of a tree tvv^o or 

 three years old from the graft; the branches are 

 led and trained round the outside of the stakes, in a 

 kind of spiral manner, till they gain the top. A hoop 

 is tied round the tops of the stakes to keep them in 

 place ; and when covered from bottom to top with 

 bearing wood, the trees have a very dressy appear* 



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