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must be taken not to allow young trees to bear too heavy 

 crops, as that will throw them back for several years. 

 Apples of large kinds should be allowed to mature only 

 one on each fruit-bearing spur, but smaller sorts may 

 have two or three. 



Perhaps there is not a more beautiful tree grown than 

 a bush-trained apple in full health and culture ; and it 

 is difficult to know which most to admire, — its free and 

 graceful growth and fine glossy foliage, the beautiful 

 size, variegation, and sweetness of the bloom, or the 

 plump, mellow richness of the fruit. 



Apples on stocks of a dwarf habit of growth may 

 not grow freely enough for poor, light soils, or for very 

 tenacious ground ; some persons, too, may prefer tall 

 trees to those of a low habit and growth. In these 

 cases, trees on crab stocks may be chosen. "When trees 

 incline to a too luxuriant habit of growth, inducing 

 canker, root-pruning must be resorted to. 



Prom the refreshing piquancy of the apple, early 

 apples are perhaps about as welcome in most families as 

 early pears ; and our lists are pretty rich in having a 

 good many nice-flavoured dessert kinds. Six may be 

 more than a medium-sized garden will require ; for sum- 

 mer fruit of this description, although nice, must not be 

 allowed to trench on the yet more valuable winter supply ; 

 from these six, however, a choice can be made. 



The Juneating is about the best known and most 

 popular summer apple — a small, green, round fruit, 

 somewhat flattened at both ends, turning to a yellow- 

 green when quite ripe, with a little red on the sunny 

 side. It is a tender, yet crisp, nice-flavoured little apple, 

 when just ready for eating ; but it turns poor and mealy 

 in a very few days. The eye is small, with a closed calyx 

 in a wrinkled basin, and the stalk is slender, of medium 

 length, and set in a small, narrow cavity. It is ripe the 

 end of July and beginning of August ; and as a crop 

 does not all come forward at once, one will last from 

 first to last about a month. The tree bears well. 



The Irish Peach-apple is the best-flavoin-ed early apple 

 we have ; white in the flesh, tender, rich, juicy, and high- 



