S6 A TREATISE OF 



CHAP. XXXIL 



Obfervations on Pruning the Heads of Trees 

 or Branches in general. 



THE beft kinds of fruit-trees that 

 grow in England arc generally plant- 

 ed in gardens fenced with walls, to which 

 their branches are confined, that they may 

 have greater advantages than common frorr^ 

 the fun's reflefted heat, and that they and 

 their fruit may be defended from the vio- 

 lence of winds, which otherwife raight be 

 very deftruftive to both. 



There are generally in the fame garden 

 other fruit-trees, planted either to make 

 efpaliers or dwarfs ; all which require great 

 care to keep them in due order, that the 

 fruit which they produce, and the pleafure 

 they afford to an admirer, may in fome 

 meafure make amends to the proprietor 

 for the charges of building, planting, &c:. 



The ereftmg of walls being very ex- 

 penfive, no part of them ought to be left 

 vacant, wherlb any thing tending to plea- 

 fure or advantage may be placed* 



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