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of walls : grapes, peaches, and winter-pears, to 

 be good, must be planted upon full south, or 

 southeast ; figs are best upon southeast, but 

 will do well upon east and southwest ; the 

 west are proper for cherries, plums, or apri- 

 cots, but all of them are improved by a south 

 wall both as to early and taste ; north, north- 

 west, or northeast deserve nothing but greens ; 

 these should be divided by woodbines or jessa- 

 mines between every green, and the other walls 

 by a vine between every fruit-tree ; the best 

 sorts upon the south walls, the common white 

 and black upon east and west, because the 

 other trees being many of them (especially 

 peaches) very transitory some apt to die with 

 hard winters, others to be cut down to make 

 room for new fruits ; without this method the 

 walls are left for several years unfurnished, 

 whereas the vines on each side cover the void 

 space in one summer, and when the other trees 

 are grown, make only a pillar between them 

 of two or three feet broad. 



Whoever would have the best fruits, in the 

 most perfection our climate will allow, should 

 not only take care of giving them as much 

 sun, but also as much air as he can ; no tree, 

 unless dwarf, should be suffered to grow within 

 forty feet of your best walls, but the farther 

 they lie open is still the better, Of all others, 



