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Thefe trees will profper In any good garden 

 ground ; or if of a rich loamy nature, it will 

 be of greater advant.Tge ; or if poor light 

 land, the borders under the walh Ihould he 

 enriched with a coropofl of rotten dung and 

 frefli fubflantial good earth, or mellow good 

 furface loam from a common or paiiure- 

 ground, or where convenient. 



Trees for planting niay be either of one or 

 two yegr old heads, or fuch as are of three, 

 four, or five years, with good fpreading heads 

 advanced to a Hate of bearing; and thereby 

 have the walls furnifned at once with bearing 

 trees : and which may be obtained at all the 

 public nurfery grounds. 



The feafon for planting thefe trees is either 

 in Autumn, at t^e fall of the leaf, end of 

 O<ftober, or in November, &cz, or in Febru- 

 ary and March. 



Plant the principal fupply againft the bed 

 South walls, fifteen to eighteen feet afunder ; 

 others on Eafterly and Weft afpeds, to ripen 

 fruit later in fucceflion ; and arrange the ihoots 

 and branches horizontally,'4bur or five inches 

 afunder, nailing them ftrait and clofe to the 

 wall, in very regular order ; and in their ad- 

 vancing growth, encreafe the number of- 

 branches annually, to cover the wall regularly 

 from the bottom upward. 



The trees will require pruning every Summer 

 and Winter, to preferve regulaiity aild fruit- 

 fulnefs ; a Summer pruning in May and J une, 

 &c. to regulate the Ihoots of the year, cutting 

 out clofe the fore-right and other ill-placed 

 produdions, very luxuriant growths, \and ob- 



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