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out lower than common ftandards, they may 

 not extend confiderably to overfpread the 

 ground ; and, on that conftdcration, the half- 

 Itandards, at any rate, are not lb proper as the 

 full rtandards for general planting. They 

 may, however, be admitced moderately, in 

 any defirable forts of fruit-trees, to admit of 

 gathering fome of the fruit more readily, 

 without climbing ; and in which may have 

 apples, pears, plums, cherries, mulberries, 

 filberts, quinces, medlars, &c. all permitted 

 to branch in their natural order, agreeable to 

 the intimations mentioned for the full ftand- 

 ards. 



Dwarf ftandards are raifed with low ftems, 

 one to two or three feet high, all generally 

 grafted or budded on dwarf-ltocks, as apples 

 on paradife and codlins, pears on quinces, &c. 

 to have them grow with fmall heads, com- 

 mencing at one, two, or three feet from the 

 gro'jnd, and always continuing of a moderate 

 growth of three or four feet extent, proper to 

 admit in fmall compartments, or in borders, 

 &c. and will bear very agreeably ; the fruit 

 large and abundant, according to their extent 

 of branches, and which can always be readily 

 gathered. 



'J'hefe dwarf ftandards may be of any kinds 

 of the choicell fruits, as fome principal apples^ 

 pears, plums, cherries, apricots, figs, dwarf 

 peaches, filberts, &c. 



They are trained, fome with concave or 



hollow heads, the branches pruned out in the 



middle, the outward branches continued in a 



T fome what 



