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very tliin of bearing wood, the crops were magni- 

 ficent ! — finer, indeed, than ever the author had seen 

 before, or has seen since. On these circumstances 

 and result, the author begs to observe, that here 

 was no enormously expensive excavation to form a 

 fruit border, three or four feet deep, to be filled up 

 with the finest loam, and richest dung, as the would' 

 he-thought first-rate gardening authors have advised ! 

 No ; the trees were planted on the natural surface, 

 as nature requires they should be, and not buried in 

 deep unwholesome pits, or graves, as has been the 

 fate of thousands of fine young trees, planted within 

 these last fifty years. 



Neither was this border ever digged with spades ; 

 but slightly stirred with blunt forks, and having a 

 little well-rotted horse dung bestowed every second 

 or third year. There cannot be a more mistaken 

 notion, and injurious practice, than overloading and 

 poisoning the fruit borders with rich dung ; it is a 

 cruel robbery of the kitchen garden crops, to do the 

 fruit trees harm instead of good. 



In the early training of the morella, the knife 

 should be used freely to gain a sufficient number of 

 leading branches ; thinning out the laterals, but never 

 shortening them. 



Much that has been stated under the head morella, 

 is applicable to many other kinds of fruit ; especially 

 those observations relative to the borders, manuring, 

 and shallow planting ; and which should never be 

 forgotten by the fruit grower. 



21. Adams' Crown Heart Cherry, — Ripens about 



