APPLES AS BUSHES FOR MARKET GARDENS. 



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some of the rich market gardens near London large 

 quantities of fruit are grown in spite of the uncouth 

 treatment the trees receive, but this does not alter the 

 case. 



In a well-ordered fruit garden, every kind of 'fruit 

 should have its department, and instead of seeing, as 

 in Kent, a row of trees of all sorts, mixed in the most 

 heterogeneous manner, no mixture of species should 

 be allowed ; every kind should have its allotment — 

 apples on the Paradise stock, ditto on the crab stock, 

 pears on the quince stock, the same on the pear stock. 

 Morello cherries as pyramids on the Mahaleb stock — 

 the best of all methods for their culture — and the 

 various kinds of Duke cherries on the same kind of 

 stock. Heart and Bigarreau cherries on the common 

 cherry stock, plums as bushes, pyramids, or half stand- 

 ards, should all be separated, and not planted hig- 

 gledy-piggledy, as they have been and are now. The 

 sound-headed market gardener will, when his mind is 

 turned to improved fruit-tree culture, see all this, and 

 make his fruit garden a pattern of order. 



I have been led into these remarks on market gar- 

 den fruit-tree culture by my own experience, and es- 

 pecially into a consideration of the great improvement 

 that may be made in the culture of apples on the 

 English Paradise stock. On referring to p. 69, the 

 reader will find that I allude to my plantation of 

 Cox's Orange Pippin apple trees on the Paradise 

 stock (see Fig. 12) ; these trees will this season (1864), 

 the third of their growth in their present quarters, 

 and the fourth of their age, give an average of a 



quarter of a peck from each tree, so that we might 

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