2i6 MANAGEMENT OF ORCHARDS. 



tion, encumbered with Orchard trees, 

 which have never paid for planting and 

 land room; and which ought forthwith to 

 be diforcharded : and there are other 

 Orcharc'; grounds in the fame predicament, 

 on different parts of this Eftate : not arifmg 

 fo much, perhaps, from locality, as frora 

 afpeSi, 



Part of the Orchards, here under notice, 

 lie bleakly exrpofed to the North : part in 

 the opening of a deep valley, in the current 

 of the Southweft wind. 



Much of the fuccefs of Orchards depends 

 on lituation. Tiie Orchards vy^hich fucceed 

 beft, in this Diftrid:, are fituated in dips or 

 hollows, which are neither expofed to the 

 bleak blafts from the North Eaif, nor to 

 thtfeawindsy from the Weil and South-^ 

 wefl. Deep narrow vallies, whofe fides 

 are precipitous, and neither lit for corn 

 nor meadow, and which are not liable to 

 the winds here notiped, as they blow acrofs 

 them, are fingularly eligible for Orchard 

 grounds j and there are many fuch, pro- 

 bably, which have not yet been planted. 

 While? it is equally probable, much of the. 



ground, 



