Feb.] 



The Fruit Garden. 8i 



twenty-five feet is a more eligible diflance ; though it ap- 

 pears coRflderable at firft, yet if grafted, &c. upon free 

 ftocks, they will readily fill that fpace, and bear confide- 

 rabjy better than if more confined, fo as to require to be 

 often fhortened to continue them within bounds ; however, 

 generally allow them not lefs than twenty feet diiUnce. 



Piums and cherries defigned for walls and efpaliers, 

 fhould be planted from fifteen to eighteen or twenty Icet 

 diilance. 



The above diflances appear a great way, when the 

 trees are firft planted; but in feven years time, the ad- 

 vantage in allowing them proper room, will appear; and 

 it fhould be obferved to allow trees planted againft low 

 walls a greater diftance than for higher walls, in order 

 that, in default of height, there may be proper fcope to 

 extend them horizontally. 



For the particular foil and fituation proper for the dif- 

 ferent kinds, fee the work of the Fruit Garden in No- 

 nj ember. 



Standard fruit-trees fliould be allowed full thirty feet 

 diftance, and let none be planted clofer than that in a 

 garden. If an orchard is to be planted, let the trees be 

 thirty or forty feet diftant from each other, at leaft, every- 

 way. 



The rule which we advife, is to plant ftandard apples 

 and pears not lefs than thirty or thirty-five feet diftance 

 (^very way; and ftandard cherries and piums twenty-five 

 feet Aipart ; and almonds, quinces and medlars twenty feet ; 

 obferving, thefe are the leaft diftances which fnouid be al- 

 lowed : but where th?re is good fcope of ground to allow 

 them five, ten, or twenty feet more room, it will, in the end, 

 prove of greater advantage when the trees arrive at full 

 growth. 



.Walnuts and chefnuts fhould be planted thirty-five 

 or. forty feet apart. 



Filberts to be let fifteen or twenty feet afunder. 

 Mulberry-trees twenty-five or thirty feet diftance. 

 • In planting fruit-trees of any kind, let care be taken 

 that they are not planted too deep, for that is a more ma- 

 terial article than many gardeners imagine. Open for 

 each tree a hole wide enough to receive the roots freely, 

 without preihng againft the fides. Then, having the 

 trees ready, being digged up with a good fpread of roots, 

 E 5 let 



