J258 A TREATISE OF 



There is another thing, which tho' fel- 

 dom taken notice of, yet is of bad con- 

 fequence to wall trees, and that is, their 

 being (haded by ftandards or efpaliers, 

 whereby the fun is prevented from darting 

 its rays freely upon them, and all fuch ob- 

 ftacles ought to be removed out of the 

 way as foon as poflible, although they 

 don't drop upon the borders, but only 

 fliade the trees growing thereon by their 

 height. 



Having before only mentioned fuch 

 things as may be fuifered to grow upon 

 borders having fouth, fouth-wefi:, eaft or 

 fouth-eaft afpeds^ yet as the other afpeds 

 are of as much fervice in the fummer as 

 thofe are in the fpring, I will therefore give 

 fome few direftions concerning them : and 

 in the firfi: place, before any thing can be 

 either fowed or planted on them, they muft 

 be relieved with manure, and ordered ac- 

 cording as the feafons and nature of the 

 foil requires -, after that is done, the fame 

 forts of things may be propagated on thefe 

 in the fummer as direfted for the others in 

 the fpring y but let none be allowed to grow 

 high, or it^A ^ and if it is a garden of 



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