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APPLE. 



March, when the buds are swelling, and in Septem- 

 ber, when many of the trees are loaded with fruit. 

 If, however, a western slope be the only choice 

 (other circumstances of soil, Sec, being favourable), 

 the planter has only to take care that the fruit trees 

 be protected by screens of forest trees on the exposed 

 points. This may be done, in a great measure, by the 

 fruit trees themselves, that is, by planting the hardiest 

 kinds, and tallest growers, on the north or windward 

 sides, and placing the more delicate and lower grow- 

 ers towards the south. 



Apple Trees on Walls, — Some of the tenderer sort 

 of apples are brought to great perfection by being 

 planted against, and trained to, walls. Some of the 

 more choice table kinds cannot be thoroughly 

 ripened unless upon walls, especially in the northern 

 parts of our island. The south, east, and west 

 aspects are suitable for one sort or other, and it has 

 been observed, that the fruit are not only higher 

 flavoured, but attain to a larger size than they do 

 either on espaliers or standards. Such sorts as re- 

 quire a w^all will be noticed as they occur in the cata- 

 logue following. 



It may be mentioned in this place, that when an 

 orchard is about to be planted, the planter, in mak- 

 ing his choice of the sorts he wishes to cultivate, from 

 this or any other published catalogue, should not 

 forget, at the same time, to look round his imme- 

 diate neighbourhood, to see which sorts succeed best 

 in his district ; because the different sorts of apples, 

 as well as other kinds of fruit, have local propensities, 



