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against two-legged intruders, is intended chiefly 

 to afford the means of raising the fruit of Peaches ^ 

 Nectarines, Apricots, and Fines, which cannot, 

 in England, be brought to perfection without 

 walls to train them against; for, though the 

 trees will all grow very well, and though a small 

 sort of Apricots will sometimes ripen their fruit 

 away from a wall, these fruits cannot, to any 

 extent, be obtained, in England, nor the Peaches 

 and Nectarines, even in France, north of the 

 middle of that country, without the aid of walls. 

 Hence, in England, Peaches, Nectarines, Apri* 

 cots, and Grapes are called Wall-Fruit. Cher- 

 ries, Plums, and Pears, are also very frequently 

 placed against walls ; and they are always the 

 finer for it ; but, a wall is indispensably neces- 

 sary to the four former. 



33. In America a fence is not wanted for this 

 purpose ; but it is very necessary for protection ; 

 TLQY shelter ; and for shade. As to the first, garden- 

 ers may scold as long as they please, and law- 

 makers may enact as long as they please, man-kind 

 never will look upon taking fruit man orchard or 

 a garden as felony nor even as trespass. Besides, 

 there are, in all countries, such things as boys ; 

 and every man remembers, if he be not very for- 

 getful, that he himself was once a boy. So that, 

 if you have a mind to have for your own use what 

 you grow in your garden, the only effectual 

 security is an insurmountable fence. This pre- 

 vents the existence of temptation, in all cases 

 dangerous, and particularly in that of forbidden 

 fruit; therefore the matter reduces itself to this 

 very simple alternative: share the produce of 

 your garden good-humouredly with the boys ot 



