Bacon as a Gardener. 101 



Seal there is but a single other name which 

 we can couple with those earlier two the 

 name of BROUGHAM. But to return to the 

 Sylva Sylvarum. Speaking of wall fruit, the 

 author observes : 



" It is usually practised, to set Trees that require much 

 Sunne, upon Walls against the South ; as Apricots, 

 Peaches, Plums, Vines, Figs, and the like. It hath a 

 double Commoditie ; The one, the^dtfofthe Wall\>y 

 Reflexion ; The other, the Taking away of the Shade ; 

 For when a Tree groweth round, the upper Boughes 

 over-shadow the lower : But when it is spread upon a 

 Wall, the Sunne commeth alike, upon the upper, and 

 lower Branches. 



" It hath also been practised (by some) to pull off 

 some Leaves from the Trees so spread, that the Sunne 

 may come upon the Bough and Fruit the better. 1 There 

 hath been practised also a Curiositie, to set a Tree upon 

 the North-Side of a Wall, and at a little height, to draw 

 him thorow the Wall, and spread him upon the South- 

 Side: Conceiving that the Root and lower Part of the 

 Stocke should enjoy the Freshnesse of the Shade ; 

 and the Upper Boughes, and Fruit, the Comfort of 

 the Sunne. But it sorted not ; the Cause is, for that 



1 This idea is not generally approved at present, 

 because, if the foliage is too thin when the fruit is 

 swelling, the heat of the autumn sun on the wall 

 is apt to draw the moisture. 



