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feet wide, would be magnificent, and have a 

 double walk : one near the wall trees, and one 

 near the front row. In the smaller lean-to, 

 which is only thirteen feet wide, one walk only is 

 permissible, and that may be where you please ; 

 but near the wall trees is best, as it gives more 

 head-room, and enables you to attend to the wall 

 trees better. To do this, a small ladder six feet 

 high, and exactly twelve inches in breadth (in 

 order to slip between the spurs), is requisite. 



A small span-roofed house should be fourteen 

 feet wide, five feet high at the sides, and nine 

 feet high to the ridge. One centre walk leads 

 between two rows of potted trees on either hand, 

 the smaller trees, of course, nearest to the sides. 



A house thirty feet by fourteen costs about 

 30/. Larger houses are twenty feet wide, sides 

 about five feet high, height to the ridge about ten 

 feet ; the paths, two in number, must be two and 

 a-half feet wide. The trees are placed on raised 

 beds, bricked in : these beds, at the sides, should 

 be four feet wide and fifteen inches high ; but in 

 the central bed (there are three beds in all), some- 

 what higher and one-third broader. Here can 

 be grown fine pyramidal apricots and plums ; 

 pears of choice kinds, and cherries, &c. 



One of Mr. Blvers's last and best is 100 feet long 

 by twenty-four, and twelve feet high in the centre 

 by five and a-quarter feet at the sides. It is glazed 

 at either end, and the roof is supported by seven 



