CH. I.] WALL-TREES. 







cured, and the wall is to be built of ftone, 

 it fhould not be built in that rough, 

 and irregular manner, which is too preva- 

 lent ; but fliould be neatly done in courfes 

 of not more than fix inches, and the fur- 

 face in fome meafure fliould be drefled 

 with the iron, and rendered fomewhat 

 fmooth for the trees being trained againft, 

 without the fear of having their bark ruf- 

 fled in windy weather* 



Much has been faid concerning copping 

 of garden-walls :. fome advifing that there 

 be no projection ; and others three, four, 

 and fome fix, inches of projection ; in or- 

 der to throw the drip off the foliage. All 

 which, in my opinion, is of no importance 

 whatever. The quantity of rain that falls 

 on a two-foot wall is but trifling ; and does 

 it not frequently happen, that the wind 

 dafhes it againft the tree ere it fall to the 

 ground, in either cafe * ? 



Q^4 The 



* A temporary copping of boards, proje&ing perhaps 

 a foot, is certainly of infinite fervice to the trees in the 

 fpring, while in bloom, in diverting or repelling the per 

 pendicular ftojls ; But thefe frofts are lels hurtful than 

 frojly winds, which fall not perpendicularly. Therefore, 

 as a template remedy for both, I would advife the ap- 

 plication of canvas fcreens, or nets, ?.s recommended in 

 XI. of Chap. VIII. 



