FRUIT-TREES. . 59 



BY this method, it is true, fine fruit 

 may be obtained that cannot be had other- 

 wife, but where there is not a great quan- 

 tity of walling it is attended with many 

 inconveniencies. 



IT is abfolutely necerfary to allow 

 the trees reft, at leaft every third vear ; 

 the late forts will not then ripen their 

 fruit or wood if the feafon is not favoura- 

 ble ; when that is the cafe, much of the 

 young wood will be hurt by the froft in 

 winter, and the tree fo mangled, that 

 there is often a difappointmcnt upon an 

 ncreafe of the fucceeding year. 



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IF the walls are all planted with good 

 kinds that are eatable in favourable feafons 

 without heat, by the help of fire they 

 may be brought to the greateft perfection, 

 and in the year that there is no fire, they 

 ftand a good chance of ripening their 

 wood if the feafon is but indifferent. 



