By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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period, from fifty to about fifty-four degrees, especially when 

 the nights or mornings are frosty ; but if they are mild, and 

 the trees more advanced, it is allowed to attain to sixty de- 

 grees. The border is richly manured with dung, and kept 

 tolerably moist with water. 



In pruning, which is going on at all times, care is taken to 

 lay in as many bearing branches as possible, to support the 

 strong shoots, and when necessary, the old overgrown wood 

 is taken out. 



