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growing pears and apples are best suited for a large 

 orchard. Thoresbj, in his Diary, under date of March 

 1702, mentions, as a novelty, an orchard, " kept in the 

 new order of dwarf trees," evidently intimating that 

 dwarf standards .were introduced from Holland by the 

 Prince of Orange at the time of the revolution. When 

 an additional supply of culinary vegetables is required, 

 they may be cultivated in the orchard ; and then the 

 trees should be planted in rows, with considerable in- 

 tervals between the rows, otherwise the close quincunx 

 order is preferable. In any circumstances, the trees 

 should not be choked up with currant and gooseberry 

 buslies, as is too common in market gardens. A few 

 plums and cherries are commonly introduced ; and 

 on the margin may be planted v,^alnuts, chestnuts, fil- 

 berts, and any others less commpnly cultivated, or the 

 fruit of which is not much in demand. The whole 

 should be effectually screened from the prevailing winds, 

 by rows of forest trees ; at a sufficient distance, how- 

 ever, to prevent shading by their branches, or the rob- 

 bing of the soil by their roots. 



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We shall first direct our"attention to the culture of 

 hardy fruits, or of such as, in the climate of England, 

 ■do not, to an extensive degree, require the assistance 

 of artificial heat. But before proceeding to a minute 

 detail of the management of the different varieties, it 

 may be proper to attend to some of the operations which 

 are common to all. 



