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pect, and gravelly subsoil. If these trees, then, are 

 to have a place at all, they will of course claim the 

 best not only the wall that sees most of the sun, 

 but such portion of it as falls not within the shade of 

 other walls. 



The magnum plum, if you would have it eatable, 

 will come in for the next favourable exposure ; but 

 you need not allow it to ramble very far. It is a 

 good fruit when its great depth of pulp is well broiled 

 in the sun, but otherwise it is worse than the skin of 

 a melon ; and as we have too many dark summers, in 

 every one of which this tree is useless, it ought not, 

 seeing it must have the best aspect, to be allowed 

 much room. 



The Ribston pippin and the jargonelle pear will 

 repay you both in quantity and quality for every hour 

 of more sun that you give them. If your situation 

 be near the level of the sea, the green-gage plum 

 will do as well on an east wall ; but any where about 

 the medium elevation it must come in for a view to 

 the south and richly it deserves it. Should the 

 Moorpark apricot, according to the above notice, be 

 excluded, you may have a beautiful display of the 

 Royal George, or of Breda, which, though inferior in 

 flavour, are yet good fruits, and illustrious for pre- 

 serves. The Orleans plum, the green pear of Yair, 

 the nonpareil apple, and Thorle pippin, are all so much 

 the better of all the sun they can get at a medium 

 elevation that you may admit them to your best wall 

 according as you have room. 



The year 1826, the dryest and hottest we have 

 seen, proved, by the size and quality of various fruits, 

 that in high situations sun heat is the great want. 



