the growth of the trees in the nursery they should not be pruned to 
single steins, without leaves, as is usually done in nuiseiies; but 
each should retain many small lateral branches, which will tend to 
make the young trees grow strong and taper in their stems, and 
will also afford much fruit whilst the trees be very young. I would 
recommend the Downton pippin for an experiment ot this kind, 
in preference to any other variety. 
At the end of eight or nine years, from the time when the trees 
are first planted, they will have covered with their branches the 
whole surface of the ground, and will then begin to injure each 
other, if the whole be suffered to remain. At this period, there¬ 
fore, every other row of trees, and at no distant subsequent period, 
every other tree in the remaining rows must be taken away, and if 
this be done with proper care,.and leaving the roots at least two 
feet long upon each side of the trunks, such trees may be removed 
with still less risk than such as are much smaller. But to insure 
success, it will be necessary to take off much the greater part of the 
lateral branches ; and the holes in which the trees are to be planted 
must be made not less than six feet wide and eighteen inches deep, 
placing the turf, if the field be pasture, in the bottom, and taking 
care that the trees be not planted deeper in the soil, than they pre¬ 
viously grew. Each tree will require, during the first year, a stake 
and a few bushes to protect it; after which nothing more Avill be 
wanting than to wash its trunk annually with lime and water and 
cow-dung, to defend it from the teeth of sheep and cattle. 
The supernumerary trees should be taken from the nursery as soon 
afterwards as convenient; but with proper attention to the preced¬ 
ing directions, both pear and apple-trees may be removed with the 
most perfect success when twenty years old, and when their trunks 
are five or six inches in diameter. 
Comparatively few of the Subscribers to the Pomona Herefor- 
diensis will be interested in learning the art of making cider; and 
