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but this is too near, for they require more 

 room ; for when trees are planted in this 

 manner, the lower branches are fmothered 

 for want of fun and air, and their ftems 

 become naked much too high, nor will 

 they ever produce good fruit upon their 

 under branches -, for being deprived of the 

 benefit of the fan, by (landing too near each 

 other, the fruit is never well flavoured, and 

 always will be fmaller, and much worfe, than 

 when the trees ftand thm^ for in clofe 

 places the fun's rays and tlie air has not 

 free paflage to take off the dew, which, 

 by its hanging too long upon the fruit, be- 

 comes very prejudicial to it. 



The loweft clafs of trees fhould be plant- 

 ed on the fouth and eaft fides, or on th^ 

 fouth-eaft and fouth-weft, if thefe be the 

 fides of an orchard; for if the tallefi: ki::ds 

 are planted in thefe places, they will Ux'ure 

 the other trees, by depriving them of the 

 benefit of the fun. 



I fhould choofe to plant the north-w- 

 and north-eaft ildes, or north and v.. 

 fides, if the orchard fo lies, with chefn- .u 

 at twenty feet apart; for thf^ nearer 1 :• 

 are together, the fooner they make a Inci- 

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