FRUIT-TREES. 



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SECT. VIII. 



Of the Ordering of ChejQiuts in Orchards. 



THE chefnut being commonly plant- 

 ed more for fhade and the fake of its 

 timber, than for the value of the fruit, (for 

 they don't always ripen in this climate) 

 fhould for that reafon have a ftrait ftem, 

 of as great a length as can pofiibly be pro- 

 cured, and branches left on it at the fame 

 diftance as directed for the horizontals of 

 apple-trees ; but there is no occafion to 

 confine them to any particular order, for 

 they may be fuffered to grow according as 

 they are naturally inclined, without any 

 reftraint ; and where the timbei* is more 

 valued than the fhade, the ftems may be 

 dreffed to a greater height before any ftrong 

 branches are fuffered to grow upon them. 



SECT. IX. 



Of the Ordering of the Walnut-Tree. 



HE walnut is a tree valuable both 

 for its fruit and timber, and the 

 more knotty it is, the more beautiful^ to 



that 



