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gnaw off'the bark ; or cattle, which break tlieni down altogether. The orchard, 
or fruit-gTound, I propose to the small farmer, is a very different aff'air from the 
straggling' sort of thing, which 1 have before attempted to describe. The acre of 
orchard I recommend, shall be an acre of ground planted with fruit-trees, and not 
an acre of inferior pasture or meadow, with here and there a straggling old tree. 
I'hey should be planted in rows, 5| yards apart, and 11 feet from tree to tree in 
the~rows; and if, after the lapse of years, they are found too close, 120 of them 
may be removed. The sorts recommended for planting, are— 
120 Hawthorn Dean, or Hawthorndeu, 
20 Keswick Codlin, 
20 Nonsuch, 
20 Fames Pippin, 
20 French Crab, 
20 Ribstone Pippin, 
20 Scarlet Nonpareil, 
making in the whole 240, to be planted on an acre,” he also particularly recom¬ 
mends the purchaser to be careful that the roots are cut as little as possible. After 
giving a description of the fruils he before named, he states, that the Hawthorn- 
dean, the Keswick Codlin, and the Nonsuch, should be half standards, or such a.« 
form their heads about three feet from the ground, because the weight of the fruit 
is apt to bend the branches so low, that it is necessary if dwarfs, to cut the health¬ 
ful bearing wood away, to keep them from the ground. When the trees are 
planted, he recommends cutting down about half the headj and in the spring, 
forking-in a little well rotted dung about the roots; and as there will be consider¬ 
able ground to spare while the trees are small, on this spare ground he plants 240 
gooseberries and currants, and 2 feet from the lines of apple trees, on each side, is 
to be occupied by potatoes, onions, turnips. French-beans, peas, &c.—but to avoid 
cabbages, parsnips, or carrots; strawberries niight be introduced, provided they 
were not allowed to stand above two years without a removal. The most impor- 
tantquestion of all comes next, which is expense ;—well, Mr. Reed proceeds, the 
labour of trenching the acre two spit deep with a spade, would in most parts be 
worth £6; trench-ploughing the same twice over, would perhaps be £2.106'. to £3; 
and by the third plan the expense would not exceed £2 5s , if only a single deep 
ploughing were had. If the depth of the soil w’ill allow it, that is, if the sur¬ 
face soil would not be materially injured by such admixture with the subsoil as 
trench-ploughing twice would occasion, he thinks it the best plan of the three; in 
either case all the expense of working the land cannot in fairness be charged to the 
trees. _ £■ 
Tlie cost of preparing the ground is assumed to be 2 0 0 
240 Apple Trees at IW. each,.0 0 0 
240 Gooseberries and Currants,.10 0 
Planting and contingeneies,.10 0 
“I do not wish however,” says the writer, “to lead or mislead others by prophe- 
syin^*' what may or will be the results ; I have shown the cost, and 1 will now state 
what have been the returns from 10 acres planted in a; similar manner bj myself, in 
the spring and autumn of 1822 ;—the fruit alone has produced as follows, viz ;— 
£. 
5 . 
d. 
1823, . , - . . 
0 
0 
1824, .... 
0 
0 
1825, . . . . 
.65 
0 
0 
1820. 
.103 
0 
0 
1827, . . . . 
0 
0 
1828, .... 
.265 
0 
0 
1 V20, . . . . 
.261 
0 
0 
