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nine, and ten feet diftance ; but tliefe 

 ihould never be planted facing fouth walls, 

 even if the borders are twelve feet wide, 

 and trie walks of equal breadth. If 

 apples on Dutch paradife flocks are 

 planted on the borders of the quarters 

 behind the north afpect, and allowed to, 

 grow, twelve or fourteen feet high, and 

 the garden is of an eafy defcent, it will form 

 an agreeable view in fummer from the 



walks on the fouth fide of the garden. 



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WHEN Dutch para$Jife apples are planted 

 to grow twelve or fourteen feet high, 

 they muff ftand at ten feet diftance, and 

 be trained to fill up the whole fpace ; but 

 in fo Iqole and eafy a manner that they 

 may appear natural, and have no refem- 

 Blance of a hedge When they are al- 

 lowed to grow fo high, there is fome 

 difficulty in keeping them from being 

 naked at bottom ; they muff not be trained 

 thick at firft, and have fome branches 

 (hortened every other year, to keep young 



wood ia the middle and bottom of the 



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