New Principles of Gardening. 
cot-Trees, whofe Bark is thick, and will not admit young Shoots 
to come where great Wood is cut away: Therefore always keep 
Trees thin of Wood in the Middle, that their Branches may 
have Room to fpread Horizontally, and thereby be kept in a 
bearing Condition. 
This Misfortune of too near planting 1s not the only one ; 
for by the near Diftance, their Roots foon meet, and rob one 
another of their proper Nourifhments, and deprive the Borders 
of their Fertility, which, when once loft, is never to be recover- 
ed again ; but by deftroying the firft planted Trees and plant- 
ing others therein of different Kinds. 
If Fruit-Trees againft E/palliers, Walls, or for Dwarfs, be 
planted at eight, nine, ten, twelve, or fourteen Foot diftaace, 
"twill be found to do very well, wz. May Cherries at eight 
Foot; Peaches and Neé#arimes, when without Vines between 
them, at nine or ten Foot; when with Vznes, at twelve Foot ; 
Plums, Duke-Cherries, and Apricots, at twelve or thirteen Foot; 
and Pears at fourteen or fifteen Foot; as alfo Apples, except 
fuch as are grafted on Paradice-Stocks, which need not exceed 
feven or eight Feot Diftance. 
You who the Beauty of your Trees defign, 
To each along the Walls its Seat affign. 
Cherries with Cherries, Figs with Ei: may meet, 
The Syrian and Cruftumian Pears are jit 
To mingle with the Britith, but we find, 
That Apples and red Plums muft not be join'd. 
All that are of a Sort i aie plant, 
They mufi_fucceed, if they no Culture want : 
And when Affairs of greater Moment ceafe, 
Yo fet their Stations be your Busne/s; 
for if they have not ample Room to {pread, 
“They then both Strength and Nouribment will need. 
Ravin, Lib. iv. Page 215. 
N. B. 1 do advife, that thofe Borders wherein your Fruit- 
Trees are planted, be kept clean from Weeds, and that there 
be neither Peafe or Beans /own or planted in them, as is com- 
mon, or any edging of Box, &c. to exhauft the Richaefs and 
Humidity of the Soil from the Fruit-Trees, which 1s eae 
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