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 frightgiMt me, because I know, to my cost, that I am, and can 

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written- The divisions are: Soils, and their preparation ; S torts; 

 Planting, and season to plant; Pruning, root and branch; 

 Manures, how and when to apply them ; Aspects, and forms of 

 training ; the best varieties ; when to gather the fruit, and how 



Softs and their Preparation* — I have sometimes thought that, 

 given the most suitable soils for any and every description of fruit 



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disregard climatic conditions. What I mean is, that our worn 



weather is never so bad but that we should be sure to get good 

 P ffjiinm^ had the roots of trait trees all the elements required for 

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swelling of their fruit. Of course, colour of fruit and the highest 

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 but this would, comparatively speaking, be a small matter. Such 

 being my opinion, you will readily understand that I attach the 

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 soil with which I have to do does not come up to the ideal of what 

 I consideT the best for the trees, the decided notions I have imbibed 

 as to what the roots should have serve as an incentive to have the 

 right elements at any cost of labour. And 

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 or Pear. There is no question but that one kind of soil would 

 do for both, but there is a question as to the better doing of each, 

 provided the soil be of the description in which each does best: 

 Heavy soil, that by some would be called clay land, if well 

 drained, is that in which trees grafted on the Quince stock do 

 best, and trees grafted on the natural stock are invariably most 

 satisfactory in soils of a lighter description. Such being the fact, 

 the soil should be prepared accordingly. I daresay that some of 

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also knowing that the soil with which I have to deal is of a 

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sisteney. but I hope 10 show that I am not. I said just now 

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 for both,"' and I am able to verify that statement by results. 

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