( *7 ) 



any common foil of a garden or orchard, 

 or in any fituation where it is not very 

 wet, which we mould abandon, for they 

 do not profper in low wet ground •, ge- 

 nerally allotting them an open expofure a 

 free to the fun and air. 



They fucceed both as flandard trees, 

 half-ftandards, and in efpaliers -, but we 

 rarely indulge them with a wall, as they 

 ripen their fruit abundantly well without 

 that afliftance. In efpaliers, however, 

 we mould generally allot a good collec- 

 tion of the beft Eating Apples, as in 

 that order of training they commonly 

 attain fuperior perfection, in regard to 

 fize and beauty, than on common 

 flandard trees ; but all the forts alfo ac- 

 quire perfect maturity on ftandards ; 

 E & and( 



