66 O F P R U N I N G: 



there would be on two trees {landing orv 

 the fame length of ground. 



THE only objection that can be made to 

 this great diftance is, that it will be fome 

 years before the wall is covered ; but if 

 the method of training the trees here di- 

 rected be followed, they will foon co- 

 ver it : however, to ' remove that ob- 

 jection, plant ftandards between, which 

 may run into fruit without any regard 

 to the trees, for they muft be cut out as 

 the dwarfs advance. 



THE competition for planting is, four 

 barrows of the prepared mould for the 

 border, to one of very rotten horfe-dung. 



IN the competition of the mould for 

 planting, there mould be always ready 

 fome of the prepared border mould ; what 

 Is meant by that is, fome of the mould of 

 the border, the trees are to be planted in y 

 after it has been trenched and well mixed: 

 this is to be obferved ia all the different 

 kinds of foils*- 



