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that height, extending all round in full 

 growth, and are moll commonly of the 

 hardy and mod ufeful forts of fruit, to pro- 

 duce the principal crops for general fupply, 

 as apples, pears, cherries, and plums ; alfo 

 mulberries, medlars, quinces, fervices, wal- 

 nuts, chefnuts, kc. and ihould be planted in 

 confiderable quantity, according to the extent 

 of garden ground, and in orchards ; but more 

 confiderably of apples and pears, as the moft 

 valuably ufeful fruit, butmoft of all of apples ; 

 alfo tolerable fuppiies of cherries and plums, 

 a few trees of mulberries, medlars, quinces, 

 plenty of walnuts in large orchards, parks, Sec. 

 imd fome fweet and wild Services planted in 

 gardens, &c. the apples, pears, twenty-five or 

 i.iirty, to forty or firty feet diftance; the 

 cherries and plums, twenty to twenty-five, or 

 thirty feet ; the fame diitance for quinces, 

 medlars, mulberries, and fervices ; and wal- 

 nuts and chelhuts, in extenfive premifes, thirty 

 or forty to fifty feet dillance; and in all of 

 which the llandard trees permitted to branch 

 out in their natural order, only cutting out 

 any irregular - placed and crofs - growing 

 branches and dead wood. 



Half-itandard trees are trained with ftems 

 three to four or five feet high, the branches 

 beginning at that height, and for which fome 

 are grafted on dwarf-Ilocks, or thofe as are 

 but of moderate growth, as apples, on codlin 

 ftocks, pears fometimes on quinces and med- 

 lars, to have them with moderate heads for 

 imall gardens, or that, as the branches com.e 

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