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fully in theNurfery, prune offonly any 

 broken or damaged parts of the root, 

 leaving their heads entire for the prefenr, 

 and proceed to plant them along the 

 wall, in the uiual method, not lefs than 

 fifteen or fixteen feet afunder ; but if 

 eighteen or twenty feet diftanee the bet- 

 ter, efpeci.lly if low walls, that in de- 

 fault of height they may have room to 

 extend the branches horizontally ; and 

 if tolerably high walls may plant a half- 

 flandard in each fpace between the 

 dwarfs, and trained like them alfo as 

 wall trees, that whilft the former occu- 

 py the lower parts, the ftandards cover 

 the upper part of the wall : as foon as 

 planted, throw down a pot of water to 

 each tree, if dry ground, efpecially in 

 Autumn or Spring planting, both to 



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