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CHAPTER II. 



The situation and formation of Espaliers. 



It is a practice very generally adopted to 

 have a walk at the front of a fruit tree border 

 to run parallel with the wall, and at the inner 

 side of the walk, and about four feet from it 

 to plant the Espaliers. The advantage of 

 having them so situated is, that the border 

 in which the trees are planted, can be pro- 

 perly drained of any undue quantity of 

 moisture, which draining is indispensible in 

 such a situation, for a great quantity of water 

 generally sinks down at the sides of the walk ; 

 but by attending to the following directions, 

 no injury whatever will be sustained from that 

 source. 



The surface of the substratum of a wall 

 tree border, is directed to be so constructed 

 as to have an inclination from the wall to the 

 front of the border of twelve inches, also at 

 the front of the border a drain is made. As 

 the soil of a wall tree border is commonly 

 somewhat deeper than the general soil of a 

 garden, a substratum, with a similar inclina- 

 tion to the wall tree border, must be formed 

 for the border in which the Espalier trees are 

 to be planted. The substratum must regu- 



