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plant i for their Heads do In time 

 grow Co large, that there is no get- 

 ting near their Stems, fb that the 

 Ground between them is wholly ufe- 

 lefs for any Purpofe ; nor can the Sun 

 reach to warm the Ground, and dif- 

 fipate crude Vapours, fo that the 

 Fruit can never be fo well-tafted, as 

 thofe produced from Efpaliers, 

 which enjoy all the Advantages of 

 Sun and free Air j but if you are de- 

 term in'd to have Dv/arf-trees, you 

 mud allow them a large EHftance 

 from each other j twenty-four Feet 

 iquare is the leall: they fhould be 

 planted ; and when the Trees begin 

 to make Shoots, they muft be faften' d 

 down to Stakes, drove into the 

 Ground all round the Tree as hori- 

 'zontally as poflibki for if you fuffer 

 the Branches at firft to grow upright, 

 you can never after reduce them to a 

 proper Figure, without either quite 

 cutting down the Branches, orpialh- 

 in^ and mangling them fo much, as 

 ohen to canker and decay the Tree. 

 In pruning thefe Trees, great Care 

 fliould be taken to keep their middle 

 Part as free from Wood as poflible, 

 and not fuffer their Branches to crofs 

 each other : The farther Particulars 

 I fliall refer to the pruning of Efpaliers, 

 which will alfo agree for Dwarfs, 

 excepting what I have already men- 

 tioned . 



Efpaliers are commonly planted to 

 furround the Quarters of a Kitchen- 

 Garden, in which Place they have a 

 very good EfFed, if rightly planted 

 and manag'd, rendring it not in the 

 leaft interior to the fine ft Farterre, 

 or moft fini(h'd Pleafure Garden ; for 

 what can be more agreeable, than to 

 walk between regular Hedges of 

 Fruit-trees, which early in the 

 Spring are cpver'd with beautiful 

 Flowers, and in Summer and Au- 

 tumn are charg'd with noble Fruits 

 of different K.indsi and the Kitchen- 



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Stuff in the Quarters is intirely hiil 

 from Sight, and alfb fcreen'd front 

 the Injuries of Weather ? 



In the Diftribution of the Quarters*" 

 I would advife that they are not too 

 fmall, which renders them unfit 

 for many Sorts of Kitchen-ftuff, and 

 alfo occalions your Efpaliers to be 

 too near each other, which fhould 

 always be avoided : The Extent of 

 thefe Quarters ought to be in Pro- 

 portion to the Bignefs of the Garden ; 

 in a large Ground they may be two 

 hundred and fifty Feet fquarc, or 

 three hundred Feet long, and one 

 hundred Feet broad, according to 

 the Figure of the Garden ; and in 

 fmall Gardens one hundred Feet 

 iquare is as much as can beallow'd j 

 and the Walks between the Efpaliers 

 Ihould alfb be in Breadth according 

 to the fame Proportion. When 

 your Ground is prepar'd for planting, 

 you fhould endeavour to make 

 Choice of Trees, which (hoot nearly 

 alike, to plant in each Efpalier; by 

 which means you may the better 

 proportion their Diftances, in order 

 to have the Efpaliers of an equal 

 Height, and not to intermix weak- 

 lliooting Trees amorgft the moft 

 luxuriant, which would occafion a 

 very unfightly Hedge. 



The Dfftance thefe Trees ihould b& 

 planted, if on Crab or Free Stocks, 

 (hould be for large fhooting Trees, 

 twenty Feet, and, for the weaker, 

 fixteenj but if they are on Paradife 

 Stocks, ten or twelve Feet will be 

 fufficient -. The Manner of preparing 

 and planting thefe Trees being the 

 iame with thofe before-mention'd> 

 I (liall not repeat it, but refer the 

 Reader thereto ; but only fhail ob- 

 ferve here, that it will be proper ta 

 head thefe Trees to about four Eyes 

 above the Grafr, and never to chufe 

 Trees more than two Years old from 

 the Time of grafti-ng } for older 



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