Vi INTRODUCTION. 
may be an ufeful and ornamental appendage* to all fuch 
Jots of property; and if the plantation be made duly open, 
the greater part of the ground may alfo be ufed to advan- 
tage, in raifing potatoes, cabbage, &c. for the fupply of the 
family; and any fuperfluous produce would always be ufe- 
_ ful, in the feeding of pigs and cattle. it has, indeed, been 
queftioned by fome gentlemen, for whofe judgment the 
writer entertains much refpect, whether an acre of orchard- 
ground be equally valuable, communibus annis, with the pro- 
duce of the fame ground in corn crops? But independent 
of the advantage of variety, there can be little doubt. but 
that an acre of orchard-ground, judicioufly planted, fo as to 
admit of under-cropping, efpecially with potatoes, the dig- 
* Confidered in an ornamental point of view, fuch a plantation 
is highly important. An orchard iz bloom, or ripening with fruit, 
is one of the moft pleafing pictures of village fcenery. The fuc- 
ceffion occupies a confiderable part of the year, and the produce, 
in {undry ways of confumption, is truly valuable. We are prone to 
envy the advantages of warmer climates, in which the luxuriant 
growth of oranges, grapes, peaches, nectarines, &c. is almoft fpon- 
taneous; but we, in many parts of our own country, negleét the 
cultivation of fruits congenial to our climate; and, perhaps, if pro- 
perly fele&ed and improved, equally delicious, or falubrious.—This 
remark applies particularly to many parts of Wa/es, in which horti- 
‘culture is almoft abandoned. The want of fruits, and the frequent 
eating of falted aliments, not the moft delicately cured, feem to 
have a vifible effect on the conftitutions of many of the inhabitants, 
which their ill-fermented malt liquors, where they can be indulged 
in, are but poorly adapted to correct. As the orchards become neg- 
le€ted, the inducement, however ftrange, feems to increafe for the 
defiruction even of very good ones, i.e. to prevent their becoming 
objects of plunder. A general exertion for new plantations becomes 
daily more urgent on Welth land-owners, who regard the beauty 
and future protit of their domains, were the pleafure of giving a 
fupply of cheap and pleafant fruit to their tenants, and the Welfh 
towns, out of the queition. 
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