SECT. III. OF A GARDEN. 31 



come less fruitful. Fig-trees require as much room 

 as the apricot, or rather more, as they grow freely, 

 and are to extend without shortening. Though other 

 trees are best planted in October f the Jig should 

 hot be till' March. 



The intermediate spaces between peaches, necta- 

 rines, and apricots, may have a vine, a dwarf-cherry, 

 or currant, or gooseberry-tree, of the early sorts, as- 

 the smooth green and small red,, to come in early; 

 and improved in the beauty, size, and flavour of their 

 fruit, by the advantage of situation. But whereso- 

 ever grapes can be expected to ripen, there let a 

 young plant, or cutting, be set, though the space be 

 confined : for the 'vine (freely as it shoots) bears ths 

 knife well to keep it within bounds. If the wall be 

 high, the cherry, or plum, may be half-standards, 

 which being after a while kept above, will be more 

 out of the way of the principal trees ; though dwarfs 

 may be trained so as not to interfere. Some have 

 planted half-standards of the same kind of fruit as 

 the dwarfs: but which ever way is used, let the inter- 

 mediate trees be pruned away below in good time, 

 in order to accommodate the principals freely as they 

 mount and extend. The better way however is, when 

 the wall is tolerably covered, to extirpate the inter- 

 mediate trees, as (when large) they impoverish the 

 border, and too much rob the principals of nutri- 

 ment: If taken up well, in season, and pruned pro- 

 perly, they may be planted elsewhere. Something 

 merely ornamental may occupy the vacancies also^ 

 as some double -blossomed fruit-tree, passion- tree^ 

 roses, &c. or in a fine situation, a pomegranate; any 

 of which may be removed when their room is wanted. 

 See section viii. On planting. 



Plums, cherries, and pears, may occupy the other 

 walls,, the two former at about fifteen, or it may be> 

 twenty feet asunder. Cherries^ except the iMorclla, 



