Nov.] The Frlit Garden. 509 



may be done any time in the month, when the weather 

 is open. * 



By having thefe trees in efpaliers, and againft walls, 

 their fruit is greatly improved in fize, beauty and fla- 

 vour : though apples are rarely indulged with a wall, but 

 all the others arc planted as wall and efpalier-trees. 



Where the above trees are to be planted againft walls 

 or efpaliers, do not forget to allow them proper roomj 

 for this has been often forgot in making new planta- 

 tions, for we very often fee them planted (o clofe toge- 

 ther, as would induce one to think, that the perfon who 

 planted them never entertained a thought of their ever 

 growing any larger; for by the time the trees begin to 

 bear tolerably, they haVe met, and incumbered, and 

 liarved one another. 



Therefore let this caution be obferved : never plant 

 fruit-trees of any kind too clofe, neither for walls, efpa- 

 liers, nor ftandards. 



The proper diftance for general planting is thus : let 

 the trees which are to be planted againft walls or efpaliers 

 be fet at leaft fifteen or eighteen feet diftant, but twenty 

 would not be too much; particularly for apples and 

 pears, which indeed ftiould never be planted defer; and 

 for fuch as are grafted or budded upon free ftocks, 

 twenty-five feet will be an eligible diftance in efpa- 

 liers, &c. 



3ut as to plum and cherry-trees for walls and efpa- 

 liers, fifteen feet at leaft ihould be allowed, but eigh- 

 teen or twenty is a more advifeable diftance. 



Let the border, or at leaft the place where each tree is 

 to be planted, be trenched two fpades deep, and let 

 fome very rotten dung be dug in; but where the earth of' 

 the border is not naturally good, let fome frefli loam, if 

 it can be obtained, be brought in, and work it well up 

 vvith a little rotten dung, and part of the earth of the 

 border. 



But freili loam will be particularly ferviceable, if 

 there are only two or three barrows full added to the 

 place where the tree is to be placed; for moft trees thrive 

 well in fuch a foil. 



Planting Standard Fruit-trees, 

 Standard appjes, and other fruit-trees of all forts, may 

 alfo be brought in and planted any time this month, in 

 mild weather. 



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