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afforded in a fmall kitchen-garden, be-* 

 fides it is in no proportion, and very un^ 

 feemly to fee a fhort narrow walk and fo 

 broad a border; and if the trees are fb 

 planted that the roots be made to run hori- 

 zontally, they in a few years will reach 

 the fide of the walks, and then the roots 

 are liable to all the misfortunes that they 

 would have been, had the border been 

 narrower ; only then it would have hap- 

 pened fooner, which any one may fee that 

 will be at the trouble to examine into the 

 bottom of a rubbifhy gravel walkj al- 

 though the border was fourteen feet broad. 



IF ever there have been thriving trees on 

 the wall, the roots will be found cankered 

 and full of knobs and bunches. I do 

 not pretend to fay it is from that reafbn 

 that trees do not thrive; they are liable to 

 .many other misfortunes, and often decay 

 before their roots extend half way over 

 the border : but it is my opinion that 

 moil of the thriving trees off fix and fe- 

 ven years pld, that go of by canker, are 

 infected from that caufe, 



