. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. MANAGEMENT OF NURSERIES. 149 ing apple-seedlings, to procure pomace from cider-mills; wash out the seeds and plant promiscuously. If the strongest seedlings only, thus obtained, are selected for setting out good trees would be the result; but it would be better to obtain apples for this purpose from trees of known hardiness and fine growth. The same remarks will apply to the selection of pear-seed and cherry, plum, and peach stones. Different modes ar
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. MANAGEMENT OF NURSERIES. 149 ing apple-seedlings, to procure pomace from cider-mills; wash out the seeds and plant promiscuously. If the strongest seedlings only, thus obtained, are selected for setting out good trees would be the result; but it would be better to obtain apples for this purpose from trees of known hardiness and fine growth. The same remarks will apply to the selection of pear-seed and cherry, plum, and peach stones. Different modes are adopted for obtaining apple-seeds easily from the pomace. The following is similar to that used by most nursery- men. Make a box five feet wide, eight or nine feet long, and ten inches deep (Fig. 204); leave the lower end, /, one inch lower than the sides, for the water to ^"'- Washer. flow over. Place this box in the bed of a brook or stream, oi» cross-bars or scantling, with a dam above to collect the water into a trough carrying the water into the box, and project- ing six inches over it. This trough would be made of boards twelve inches wide nailed together, and the stream should be large enough to nearly fill it when flowing gently. To prevent the water from dashing into the box too furiously, two boards are first nailed together as shown at b, one board being eighteen inches by two feet, and the other eighteen inches by one foot. The longer board is placed on the top of the spout, and the shorter at right angles across the lower end of the spout. This serves to throw the water perpendicularly downward into the box, and at the same time to spread it out into a thin sheet. By moving this board up or down the spout, the quantity of water pouring into the box may be easily controlled. One man stands on the board e, which extends across the box; and the other carries and deposits the pomace (well pounded to pieces) into the box at d, one or two bushels a
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