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the growth of the trees in the nursery they should not be pruned to 

 single stems, without leaves, as is usually done in nurseries ; but 

 each should retain many small lateral branches, which will tend to 

 make the young trees grow strong and taper in their stems, and 

 will also afford much fruit whilst the trees be very young. I would 

 recommend the Downton pippin for an experiment of this kind, 

 in preference to any other variety. 



At the end of eight or nine years, from the time when the trees 

 are first planted, they will have covered with their branches the 

 whole surface of the ground, and will then begin to injure each 

 other, if the whole be suffered to remain. At this period, there- 

 fore, every other row of trees, and at no distant subsequent period, 

 every other tree in the remaining rows must be taken away, and if 

 this be done with proper care, and leaving the roots at least two 

 feet long upon each side of the trunks, such trees may be removed 

 with still less risk than such as are much smaller. But to insure 

 success, it will be necessary to take off much the greater part of the 

 lateral branches ; and the holes in which the trees are to be planted 

 must be made not less than six feet wide and eighteen inches deep, 

 placing the turf, if the field be pasture, in the bottom, and taking 

 care that the trees be not planted deeper in ihe soil, than they pre- 

 viously grew. Each tree will require, during the first year, a stake 

 and a few bushes to protect it ; after which nothing more will be 

 wanting than to wash its trunk annually with lime and water and 

 cow dung, to defend it from the teeth of sheep and catde. 



The supernumerary trees should be taken from the nursery as soon 

 afterwards as convenient ; but with proper attention to the preced- 

 ing directions, both pear and apple-trees may be removed with the 

 most perfect success when twenty years old, and when their trunks 

 are five or six inches in diameter. 



Comparatively few of the Subscribers to the Pomona Herefor- 

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