2i8 MANAGEMENT OF ORCHARDS. 



to avoid the ill effed: of the winds, or to 

 bring the fruitbearing wood near the 

 ground, and thereby to gain a more genial 

 atmofphere, for the fruit to mature in ; or 

 whether it may have arifen out of the 

 practice of gathering crab ftocks in the 

 woods, and rough grounds, where they fre- 

 quently take a low IJirubby form, may now 

 be difficult to afcertain : at prefent, the 

 pra(ftice appears to be followed, merely, as 

 an eftablilhed cuitom. 



The difadvantages of low fruit trees will 

 be mentioned, in fpeakir;gof x\xq Application 

 of the Land of Orchards. 



7. In the PLANTii^G of Fi-uit Trees, 

 the Orchardmen of Welt Devonlhire exceh 

 A flronger proof of this need not be pro- 

 duced, than the circumflance of their 

 keeping the fame ground in a ftate of 

 orchard, in perpetuity. As the old trees 

 go pfF, young ones are planted, in the inter- 

 fpaces, without any apprehenijons of mif- 

 carriage, 



la Jetting out Orchards, the pra(ftice of 

 Devonfiiire is not lefs unique, than it is in 

 training the plants. A ftatute rod, namely 



five 



