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ness to strive against nature, and to spend, in badly 

 executing what is above your ability, those labours 

 which, if laid out on things within your reach, 

 might be crowned with abundant success. At a 

 height of 800 feet, with ordinary shelter, theMag- 

 dalene peach will ripen well in most years, and the 

 Moorpark apricot in favourable seasons. Let this 

 then be your border, observing that, if 100 feet 

 must be added to your elevation, such addition may 

 be compensated only by the utmost advantages of 

 encircling hills, woods, southern aspect, and gravelly 

 subsoil. If these trees, then, are to have a place 

 at all, they will of course claim the best not only 

 the wall that sees most of the sun, but such por- 

 tion of it as falls not within the shade of other walls. 



The magnum plum, if you would have it eatable, 

 will come in for the next favourable exposure ; but 

 you need not allow it to ramble very far. It is a 

 good fruit when its great depth of pulp is well 

 broiled in the sun, but otherwise it is worse than 

 the skin of a melon; and as we have too many 

 dark summers, in every one of which this tree is 

 useless, it ought not, seeing it must have the best 

 aspect, to be allowed much more. 



The Eibston pippin and the jargonelle pear will 

 repay you both in quantity and quality for every 

 hour of more sun that you give them. If your 

 situation be near the level of the sea, the green- 

 gage plum will do as well on an east wall; but any 

 where about the medium elevation it must come in 

 for a view to the south and richly it deserves it. 



