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view of shewing what good has been 

 done, and is still to be hoped for, from 

 proper regidations like the above. Would 

 to God, that the ability and respectability 

 of the practice of gardening could be 

 secured in some similar manner, we 

 might then expect to eat of the best pro- 

 duce of the soil, and our trees to bring 

 forth good fruit in abundance. 



In the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, 

 which are noted for the produce of all 

 kinds of fruit, which we have in gardens or 

 orchards, the trees are planted dwarf, and 

 comparatively close together, by which 

 means, a greater quantity of fruit is grown 

 on a given piece of land; those are usually 

 grafted on Paradise stocks, and the trees 

 begin to produce in three years abund- 

 antly, even when they are not more than 

 four or five feet high, and the whole 

 diameter of the extent of branches not 

 more j in such cases, it is usual to give up 

 the land principally to this purpose, and 

 plant the trees in rows ten feet apart, 

 and five feet distance in the rows. The 



