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Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming. 
away, but pruned, or tipped, and its growth regulated according 
to fancy. The advantages of these, both for gardens and planta- 
tions made by tenants, are that they come to fruit quickly, that 
they may be set much more closely together, and are less liable 
to cankered disease, and that the fruit is finer. Their cost is 
about the same as that of standards, and they may be set 16 feet 
apart each way without any fear of crowding, if they are war- 
ranted to be upon the proper Doucin stocks. For gardens apple- 
bushes are coming into general fashion and high favour, inas- 
much as they come into bearing in about three years from the 
grafting, and remain bushes without hacking and excessive 
cutting. For these the true English Paradise stock, of dwarfing 
Fig. 2. — Sketch of a Margil Apple-bush. 
nature, is used and grafted close to the ground. Bushes of this 
kind can be put anywhere in gardens, from 7 to 10 feet apart, 
and are things of beauty in leaf, in bloom and in fruit. A plot 
planted with bushes of various kinds of apples is as pretty as a 
variegated flower-bed, when the blossoms are out, and even 
prettier when the fruit is ripening. A sketch of a Margil * 
apple-bush, in my own garden, is given here as an illustra- 
tion of the shape of a typical bush. This is only four years 
* The Margil is a beautiful ly-colonrcd apple of Eibston Pippin flavour. Dr. 
Hogg says, " It is one of the finest dessert apples, a rival of the Ribston Pippin, 
exceeding it in juiciness, and being a better size for dessert." 
