100 CHOICE OF TREES FOR ESPALIERS. 



pippins in my garden; but the wheat scanty in the 

 field is also light in the sack; the sheep dwindle 

 and die; and the pippins are not eatable, if so be 

 that there are any to eat. There is in this every 

 way a wrong judgment, and there cannot fail to 

 arise much discomfort from preferring a higher kind, 

 though of worse quality, to a better quality, though 

 of a lower kind; and the vanity of the whole idea 

 is brought to view, by comparing the peasant, of 

 either sex, nobly clad in native wool, with the rake 

 or drab that would be genteel in decayed finery. 



Having your wall already furnished with the 

 best sorts that may suit your climate, you have 

 only to go a degree lower in the scale to make up 

 your espaliers. But should your wall be so limited 

 as not to afford room for so many of the better sorts 

 as might otherwise be admissible, it will be proper 

 to cultivate as espaliers certain trees which ought 

 in other circumstances to have a place on the wall. 

 That part of your rails which is opposite to the south 

 wall, and has some benefit from its reflection, is the 

 most favourable for such an experiment. At the 

 medium elevation the Ribston pippin will do well 

 in this situation; for though it will not come to 

 such perfect maturity it will yet be better than most 

 other fruits, and the tree will prove more healthy 

 than it usually does on the best wall. A jargonelle 

 pear, in the like circumstances, may be not unsuc- 

 cessfully tried; and in lower situations, failing the 

 extent of wall, a variety of the finer sorts of apples 

 and pears may be raised in this way. The less 

 favourable aspects of the espalier rows must of 



