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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mistakes in Planting and Fencing. 
Fig. 127 shows two mistakes very commonly made in planting and 
fencing. The hole is too small, barely two feet wide, and the roots have been, 
cut to fit the liole. There is no stake to it, its only support being the fence 
of thorns, and being a tall tree it is blown about, loosening the roots and 
bruising the bark. It was planted in November 1899, by a tenant who 
gave up his farm the following Ladyday, in fulfilment of a condition (a very 
common one) in his lease which said, " Any trees which die from any 
Fig. 132. — The same Tree with a Mulching of Strawy Manure. 
cause must be replaced by the tenant, who will have the old tree to do as 
he likes with." These may not be the exact words, but they convey the 
meaning. On this estate — one of the largest in the county — the landlord 
allows nothing towards planting or staking. It is a very much better tree 
than many planted under the same conditions, as the tenant would have 
acted up to the letter of his lease if he had put in anything resembling a 
tree. Fig. 128 shows its full size. It is a very strong, healthy growing 
variety known as ' Morgan Sweet,' very commonly planted in Somerset, 
and usually grafted two or three years after planting. The price of these 
trees was 4s. (Sd. each. Most varieties do well head- grafted on ' Morgan 
Sweet,' but it is a long time before a tree becomes fruitful, reckoning from 
