•SECT. III. OF A CARDtS. £7 



Efpalicr trees mould rather be trained to fawed ma- 

 terials properly framed together, fmoothed and painted. 

 But for a year or two,. they may be fattened to lighjt 

 Hakes, when they will have formed a head, to begin 

 to train them forbearing in the neat manner prpppfed ; 

 i. e. to flips of deal joined to light oak polls as trellifes. 

 Whether the flips be placed perpendicularly, or longi- 

 tudinally, feem indifferent. If the longitudinal mode 

 of training be the bell approved, ftrong iron wire 

 may be recommended to run through the pedis, in- 

 ffead of flips of wood, as. it fhades lefs and is flrongcr 

 and neater. 'If upright flips are ufed, they fhould 

 •be (lender, and from fix to eight, inches diflance, 

 according to the greater or lefs freedom of. the 

 natural growth of the tree. The height may he alfo 

 according to the nature of the tree, from five to fix 

 feet ; and it will not anfwer to have them-low er. Only 

 a moderate length of trellis (on each hand) need be 

 fixed at firft, and fo additions made as the tree extends. 

 The polls may be about four feet afunder, the fi-ril 

 on each hand being two feet, or a yard, from the ftem 

 of the tree. 



apples fhould be allowed twenty-four feet and fears 

 thirty; except thofe grafted on paradife or quince 

 Mocks, for which little more than half this diftanee 

 may do. Cherries and Plums fhould have about 

 eighteen or twenty feet allowed them. Quinces, medlars, 

 mulberries, and filberds may alfo be efpaliered. The 

 trees fhould be planted about a yard from the edge; bijt 

 farther off were better, if the walks he deep of gravel 

 or poor materials. 



The Breda, and Bruffeis apricots, have fucceedejl 

 in efpahers*, as- alio in dwarf and full ft-andards; but 

 the general climate of the place mull be mild, an4 t)?e 

 fuuation they are planted in mufi be very funny .an{l 

 well theitered-. The fruit from tfandard apricots is vejy 

 fine, and abundant^ ^t:$hoy come , not, tQ: bearing 

 under feverai (fometimes te»/qrXwel.ve) years. .,,. g| 



Currants, 



