66 A TREATISE OF 



heads about two years old, with branches 

 regularly fpread round, but not too near 

 each other. 



CHAP. XXV. 



Shapes proper for Standard Frult-Trees. 



THE fruit-trees commonly planted 

 in orchards, are the apple, pear, 

 plum, cherry, medlar, walnut, mulberry, 

 and quince-trees ; the lafl: of which is upon 

 its own root; from which a ftraight ftem 

 ought to be trained to the height of fix 

 feet at leaft ; if lower, their heads will be 

 injured by cattle, when they are put in to 

 pafture amongft them, as they often are 

 when the trees have been planted a few 

 years : all the above mentioned trees jfhould 

 have ftraight ftems, of the fame height 

 with that of the quince, and ought each 

 of them to have five branches or more at 

 the head, putting out at equal diftances 

 from the ground, and from each other 

 as near as pofiible ; none but one of the 

 branches fliould ftand ere£l, and if the 



heads 



