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however, have adopted the new method with 

 great success. One gentleman in this neighbour- 

 hood, by renovating thirty-nine old Morellos 

 planted on a North wall I76 yards long, and ten 

 feet high, was in a few years able to sell yearly, 

 on an average, from thirty to forty pounds worth 

 of fruit produced from them, besides supplying 

 his own family. In some years the Market- 

 Gardener who sold them allowed him three 

 shillings per pound weight. 



A row of Dwarf Cherry-trees that stood against 

 an old paling in Kensington Gardens, with an 

 old thorn hedge at the back of it, (which every 

 year so infected them with a blight, accompanied 

 by an immense number of caterpillars and other 

 insects, that even in a fine year we could not 

 gather eight baskets from the whole row,) be- 

 came so fruitful after the hedge and paling were 

 removed, that we gathered forty-two pounds 

 a-day for six successive weeks, besides what the 

 birds, wasps and flies destroyed. 



This estimate is within the bounds of truth ; 

 and I mention the fact to stimulate Market- 

 Gardeners and Farmers, who have large orchards 

 and gardens, to exert themselves in trying every 

 method, however unimportant it may at first 

 appear, to improve and render them more fruitful. 



The Duke and Heart Cherries from these trees 

 were as fine as any that were produced from wall 

 trees J and, as they -are much more productive, I 

 have been induced to take up many of the old 



