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sheep on my farm ; or I have golden pippins in my 

 garden; but the wheat scanty in the field is also light 

 in the sack ; the sheep dwindle and die ; and the 

 pippins are not eatable, if so be that there are any to 

 eat. There is in this every way a wrong judgment, 

 and there cannot fail to arise much discomfort from 

 preferring a higher kind, though of worse quality, 

 to a better quality, though of a lower kind; and the 

 vanity of the whole idea is brought to view, by com- 

 paring the peasant, of either sex, nobly clad in native 

 wool, with the rake or drab that would be genteel in 

 decayed finery. 



Having your wall already furnished with the best 

 sorts that may suit your climate, you have only to 

 go a degree lower in the scale to make up your es- 

 paliers. But should your wall be so limited as not 

 to afford room for so many of the better sorts as might 

 otherwise be admissible, it will be proper to cultivate 

 as espaliers certain trees which ought, in other cir- 

 cumstances, to have a place on the wall. That part 

 of your rails which is opposite to the south wall, and 

 has some benefit from its reflection, is the most fa- 

 vourable for such an experiment. At the t medium 

 elevation the Ribston pippin will do well in this situ- 

 ation; for though it will not come to such perfect 

 maturity it will yet be better than most other fruits, 

 and the tree will prove more healthy than it usually 

 does on the best wall. A jargonelle pear, in the like 

 circumstances, may be not unsuccessfully tried ; and 

 in lower situations, failing the extent of wall, a va- 

 riety of the finer sorts of apples and pears may be 

 raised in this way. The less favourable aspects of 

 the espalier rows must of course be filled up with 



