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Should the Moorpark apricot, according to the 

 above notice, be excluded, you may have a beauti- 

 ful display of the Royal George, or of Breda, which, 

 though inferior in flavour, are yet good fruits, and 

 illustrious for preserves. The Orleans plum, the 

 green pear of Yair, the nonpareil apple, and Thorle 

 pippin, are all so much the better of all the sun they 

 can get at a medium elevation, that you may admit 

 them to your best wall acccording as you have room. 

 The year 1826, the dryest and hottest we have 

 seen, proved, by the size and quality of various 

 fruits, that in high situations sun heat is the great 

 want. Trees go well down for moisture, and do 

 not suffer for want of rain in the dryest season, as 

 they do for want of sunshine in ordinary seasons. 

 And as ministers may not have so much in their 

 power as to the mode of laying out their gardens, 

 it may not be amiss to suggest to proprietors who 

 do not incur the expence of hothouses, that the 

 best way in which a garden can be laid out in higher 

 situations is to have only one wall in all its length 

 facing the south. The expence of building is the 

 same. The north aspect is at all events useless : 

 and though the east and west walls may have fruit 

 on both sides, yet the two will not equal, taking 

 quality together with quantity, the production of 

 half the space having an aspect to the south. A 

 garden of such a form might be made more beauti- 

 ful than any other: and it would free its owner 

 from the embarrassment which so frequently occurs 

 in settling what trees may be put off with an in- 



