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of wall-trees will inform you what quantity to 

 make them ; as for example, fifteen foot is the 

 distance of cherries and plumes, (except such as the 

 May-cherrie, which, being dwarfish, requires less), 

 eighteen foot for apricocks and peaches, twenty foot 

 for apples, twenty-four for pears ; therefore, if you 

 make the semi-circumference eighteen foot for 

 apricocks and peaches, (you may plant two dwarf 

 cherries therein) ; let the plain if straight wall be- 

 twixt each semicircle be just one tree distant like- 

 wayes. 



Also in straight walls divide equally, and plant 

 none in the corners : measure first off six foot on 

 each side the gates or doors, for honisuckles, jas- 

 mines, &c. And whatever be the distance of your 

 trees, set them half therefrom, as also from the cor- 

 ners ; except where youmake all their headsply one 

 way : if on a low wall such may stand three foot 

 from the corners, or the honisuckles they lean from, 

 and a whole distance from these they lean towards. 

 You may plant a goosberrie and curran in the in- 

 tervals of your wall-trees, while young, and when 

 the trees approach, remove them. Let the roots of 

 your wall-trees stand near a foot from the wall, 

 with their heads inclining towards it. Wall-trees 



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