KINDS OF FRUITS. 159 



SECT. IV. 



OF THE KINDS OF FRUITS FOR WALLS AND ES- 

 PALIERS, THE PROPER ASPECTS FOR THEM, 

 AND THE DISTANCE AT WHICH THEY SHOULD 

 BE PLANTED. 



VARIETIES of the different kinds of fruits have 

 been multiplied exceedingly of late years, indeed 

 to an extent, with regard to some, out of all ordi- 

 nary bounds. It is the fate of humanity to fall into 

 errors, and of mankind often to overshoot the 

 mark, when anxious in the pursuit of certain ob- 

 jects. That of obtaining a variety of fruits, out of 

 which might be selected the best, was a laudable 

 pursuit of the horticulturist ; and we are certainly 

 much indebted to several eminent persons for their 

 exertions in this way, and for the pains taken to in- 

 troduce many valuable sorts. To this point the ob- 

 ject should have been confined. But the matter 

 has been much over done, and very many kinds of 

 fruits have been spread over the country, that are 

 not worth the trouble of planting, to the evident 

 loss and disappointment of thousands. 



In the sowing or planting of culinary vegetables, 

 of bad or indifferent sorts, the loss is riot great, as 

 it can be remedied perhaps the same season, and at 

 any rate the following ; but in planting worthless 

 kinds of fruit-trees, there is a certain loss of labour, 



