The ordering of the Orchard. 



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larger then of a Garden, would require more colt, which euery one cannot vndergoe; 

 and therefore mud wals, or at the belt a quicke let hedge, is the ordinary and moft vfu- 

 all defence it findeth almolt in all places: but with thofe that are of ability to com- 

 palle it with bricke or (tone wals, the gaining of ground, and profit of the fruit trees 

 planted there againlt, will in fhort time recompenfe that charge. If you make a doubt 

 how to be fure that your Orchard wall (hall haue fufficient comfort of the Sunne to 

 ripen the fruits, in regard the trees in the Orchard being fo nigh thereunto, and fo 

 high withall, will fo much (hadow the wall, that nothing will ripen well, becaufe it 

 will want the comfort of the Sunne: you may follow this rule and aduice, to remedy 

 thole inconueniences. Hauing an Orchard containing one acre of ground, two, three, 

 or more, or lefTe, walled about, you may fo order it, by leauing a broad and large 

 walke betweene the wall and it, containing twenty or twenty foure foote (or yards if 

 you will) that the wall (hall not be hindered of the Sun, but haue fufficient comfort for 

 your trees, notwithftanding the height of them, the diftance betweene them and the 

 wall being a fufficient ("pace for their fhadow to fall into : and by compaffing your Or- 

 chard on the infide with a hedge 

 (wherein may bee planted all forts 

 of low (hrubs or bufhes, as Rofes, 

 C'ornellian Cherry trees plalhed 

 lowe, Goofeberries, Curran trees, 

 or the like) you may enclofe your 

 walke, and keepe both it and your 

 Orchard in better forme and man- 

 ner, then if it lay open. For the 

 placing of your trees in this Or- 

 chard, firft for the wals : Thofe 

 fides that lye open to the South & 

 Southweft Sunne, are fitteft to bee 

 planted with your tendereft and 

 earlielt fruits, as Apricockes, Pea- 

 ches, Nectarius, and May or early 

 Cherries : the Eaft, North and 

 Weft, for Plums and Quinces, as 

 you (hall like belt to place them. 

 And for the Orchard it felfe, the 

 ordinary manner is to place them 

 without regard of meafure or dif- 

 ference, as Pea res among Ap- 

 ples, and Plums among Cherries 

 promifcuoufly ; but fome keepe 

 both a diftance and a diuifion for 



euery fort, without intermingling : yet the moft gracefull Orchard containeth them 

 all, with fome others, fo as they be placed that one doe not hinder or fpoile another; 

 and therefore to defcribe you the modell of an Orchard, both rare for comelinefle in 

 the proportion, and pleafing for the profitablenefle in the vfe, and alfo durable for 

 continuance, regard this figure is here placed for your direction, where you muft ob- 

 ferue, that your trees are here fet in fuch an equall diftance one from another euery 

 way, & as is fitteft for them, that when they are grown great, the greater branches (hall 

 not gall or rubbe one againft another ; for which purpofe twenty or fixteene foot is the 

 leaft to be allowed for the diftance euery way of your trees, & being fet in rowes euery 

 one in the middle diftance, will be the moft gracefull for the plantation, and befides, 

 L^iuc you way fufficient to pafle through them, to pruine, loppe, or drefTe them, as need 

 Hiall require, and may alfo bee brought (if you pleafe) to that gracefull delight, that 

 euery alley or diltance may be formed like an arch, the branches of either fide meeting 

 to be enterlaced together. Now for the feuerall forts of fruit trees that you (hall place 

 in this modell, your belt direction is to fet Damfons, Bulleis, and your taler growing 

 Plums on the outfide, and your lower Plums, Cherries, and Apples on the infide, ha- 

 uing regard, that you place no Peare tree to the Sunward, of any other tree, left it ouer- 



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