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the trench and treading it gently on to the roots. 

 The following sorts are well adapted for this hush 

 culture, but the upright varieties recommended for 



There is no mode of apple culture more interesting 

 than bush culture. On the next page I annex a 

 sketch of a plantation of Cox's Orange Pippin (Fig. 

 12), of one hundred trees ; they were planted in the 

 spring of 1862. They bore a fine crop in 1863 of 

 most beautiful fruit, and in 1864 gave a crop almost 

 too abundant. 



APPLES AS BUSHES FOB MARKET GARDENS. 



Our market gardeners, as a rule, are very deficient 

 in their knowledge of fruit-tree culture, and they have 

 much to learn. The usual practice with them is to 

 plant standard or half standard trees in rows, some 

 twenty or thirty feet apart, and between them goose- 



1 These dwarf bushes are liable to be gnawed by rabbits and hares in exposed 

 gardens. The best of all preventives is to paint them with soot and milk, "well 

 mixed; or make a fence with galvanized wire netting, round the garden in which 

 they are planted. 



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Hawthornden, kitchen 



Joauueting (whito), dessert 



Melon Apple, dessert 



More de Menage, kitchen 



Nonesuch, kitchen 



Pool me ltoyale, kitchen or dessert 



Tteinctte du Canada, kitchen or dessert. 



Eibston Pippin, dessert 



South Carolina Pippin, kitchen 



Spring Eibston Pippin, dessert 



Victoria, dessert 



Waltham Abbey Seedling, kitchen 



