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Trees go well down for moisture, and do not suffer 

 for want of rain in the dryest season, as they do for 

 want of sunshine in ordinary seasons. And as min- 

 isters may not have so much in their power as to the 

 mode of laying out their gardens, it may not be amiss 

 to suggest to proprietors who do not incur the ex- 

 pense of hothouses, that the best way in which a 

 garden can be laid out in higher situations is to have 

 only one wall in all its length facing the south. 

 The expense of building is the same. The north 

 aspect is at all events useless : and though the east 

 and west walls may have fruit on both sides, yet the 

 two will not equal, taking quality together with 

 quantity, the production of half the space having an 

 aspect to the south. A ga-den of such a form might 

 be made more beautiful than any other : and it would 

 free its owner from the embarrassment which so fre- 

 quently occurs in settling what trees may be put off 

 with an inferior exposure; for in truth one and all 

 of them are valuable in the proportion of the sun- 

 light which they receive. 



But supposing that you have now made choice of 

 as many as your best wall can accommodate, the 

 room to be given to each is an important considera- 

 tion, and not very often, as far as I have seen, con- 

 sidered wisely. A small bit of wall will yield a 

 shilling's worth of fruit in one year, and that is more 

 than the price of a good tree. The wall is the main 

 expense. Have it well filled up as soon as possible, 

 and have in view to keep it always full, removing 

 the whole or part of any tree that proves less valuable 

 than the one which it begins to incommode. You 

 may, according to this plan, allow one dwarf tree for 



