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lated bole rifes to a flandard tree, their intervals may be dipt, 

 and, in courfe, ftrengthened as a fence. It may be requiiite 

 to obferve, that no flock receives and nourifhes with more 

 admirable facility its graft, than the white-thorn, the fcion or 

 bud of the pear; but, in confequence of the engraftment be- 

 ing four or more feet from the ground, the fcion foon be- 

 comes larger in diameter than the flock, but this circumftance 

 I have made fubfervient to their bearing, by leading their very 

 vigorous fhoots to flakes or flandard trees, where affixed, 

 they acquire the form and fruitfulnefs of an efpalier, which 

 being raifed two or three feet above the quick, are out of the 

 reach of the bite of cattle, and form a complete barrier againft 

 their leaping over, or breaking through : with equal eafe they 

 may afcend into fturdy flandards, by being engrafted within 

 an inch or two of the bank. It may be needlefs to add, that the 

 firfl mentioned genus of fruit trees may thus be promoted to a 

 manufactory of cyder and perry, and from fmall farms in 

 the vicinity of towns, or in eafy communication with the 

 metropolis, fupply their alimental produce for immediate 

 confumption, perhaps, in fome favourable years, to the 

 amount, in value, of the other produce of fingle or two-fold 

 acres they inclofe. 



I wifh to avoid repetition, but I am perfuaded of the prac- 

 ticability of this fcheme of inclofure, and farther, that the wild 

 and bird cherry fPrunus PadusJ are feverally fufceptible of 

 every fpecies of cherries : thefe various flocks, thus amelio- 

 rated, would be beautiful in objeft. fubflantial in value ; anJ 

 be of provincial benefit wherever adopted. 



