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prefent Week in this Part of the Ground | '-Eipalier, which is its Firmnefs.. _ 
be the Care .of his Efpaliers. Les. him_re- 1 : This: Kind df. Hedge ‘thould le like a 3 
collect thefe have a double Ufe, to bear Fruit, Wall ‘No. Sight is more difpleafing than to. 
and to defend the Quarters within ; and that their fee it fway with the Wind; nor .do the Trees 
Merit confifts in two Articles, that they be | ever thrive that’ aré fubje&ted to this Motion, ., 
clofe without crowding, and flat without fae All’ the” loofe" StakeS being” replaced) let ‘him 
spicii faften up the Poles he’ Rae loofened from the : 
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trine of E/paliers. 
His Care muft be to eat ‘them 3 in Lie 
proper Condition which thefe Articles require, if | 
they have been well made; and if not, he 
may every “Winter mend their original Fault, by | 
bringing them nearer and nearer to ‘the right Forin. 
For the Service. of the prefent Week, in, this 
Article let him provide fome {mall Ath-poles, | | 
fach as are fold in -half hundred Bundles, and: a: | removed, Jet him. look, to fuch as areloofe,. Let 
few of the larger. Kind for Stakes. Some Ofer thefe be fattened i in the fame Manner, as the new. 
Twigs well twifted, with a Parcel of Wire. and. t ones, by nailing) to the firm Stakes s. and fecuring: 
fome Nails. 
ee | | the Elenthe in other Places with fome of the 
Thus provided, let him pe go ee a | 
Wire... ~, | 
Form of the Hedge, that he may begin: to, | This: finidhes: the F scanes eis and Jet hina: 
amend it, if faulty. The great Rule is this,.the | now look to: the Trees:and their Branches, 
broader the’ Walk between, the higher may be the, | 
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| --Dhefe. muft be regularly train’d along: the 
Hedge’: the narrower that i is, the lower the: other ) | Frame,. and’ faftened at> due Diftances..by the 
muft be. : 
ya med CHLOE | Ofier-twigs, not tying them fo clofe, fo as to 
Therefore if. the Hedge be too high, the 
| prefs-or injure them. | 
- Confequence of which is, that the Walk will be 7 
Let him take Care that the Branches do not 
damp, and the Fruit will never be well tafted, | croft one another ; and that BBR are not laid in 
let him in all his Work reduce it lower. And 
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on the other Hand, if it. be fo low, that it. é : 
will bear more Height, let that by all Means baer: he imp fcured the Hedge in every 
Part, and ty’d thefe in, let him look over his 
be encouraged,..for. it. ,yill the, better, decorate |), Work, and fee that the Branches are placed at a 
the Walk, and hide the Quarters. P 
os tolerably regular $35 x and all is then as it 
This firft fettled, let him examine dee: Stokes ‘fhould be. 
by fhaking them; ‘and where they rock, let him | 
In thofe Piel: formed of cosine {quare,, 
at once unfaften the Poles that are connected to | ‘Timber, the Method is the fame, ‘only inftead of 
them, and taking them up, drive fome of his : ) 
Gi Be ge the two Kinds of Afh-poles, there muft be pre- 
firm and large Afh-Peles in their Place. tidied Coulee of tht can Sina 
|“ Wherevei”’a” Pole’ is" detayed, let him take 
_ it away, as the Stake ; and lay one.of the fmall 
| Ath-poles in the Place of it, 
Let him faften’ thefe by ftrong. Nails, to. 
the upright Stakes, and then fix 2 9 Bough 
to them, 
When. thofe which were. rho are) thusi — 
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