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be no trees except thofe of the wall The cafe is 

 different where there is ample room ; and the bloffoms 

 of fruit trees (apples particularly) are fo delightful, 

 that if they produced nothing for the palate, there 

 would be a fufficient inducement to plant them for 

 ornament; but let them be dwarf ftandards, in pre- 

 ference to efpaliers. 



Divarf-Jiandards occafion lefs trouble to keep them 

 m order than efpaliers, and are (generally) more pro- 

 ductive; for Efpalier trees are feldom managed well, 

 and thus appear unfightly ; at beft they are ftiff and for- 

 mal, and obilrucl the fight in viewing the quarters of 

 a garden, which (if in order.) are worthy of coming 

 under the eye : the violence done to nature, to keep 

 efpaliers in form, is commonly paid by pains and dii- 

 appointment. A writer of repute obferves, apples on 

 French paradife flocks, planted at eight or nine feet 

 diflance, pruned and kept in an eafy manner, make a 

 fine appearance, and produce better fruit, and in 

 greater quantities, than when they are in efpaliers l 

 Dutch paradife flocks however laft longer,, and are. 

 altogether fuperior. For managing Dwaf trees, fee 

 Pruning. 



If Efpaliers are planted, let them be only fruit of 

 the belt forts, and in Jpacious gardens, where they may 

 have a good length and height allowed them to grow 

 freely; and let it be refolved to do the bufmefs neatly. 

 If they may have nothing better than poles or flakes to 

 be trained to, let them at leaft be ftrait, and ot fome 

 equality in Size, as to height and thicknefs, fmooth^. 

 and not too clunr-y for the purpofe; ax them well "in 

 the ground, upright, and about nine inches afunder 

 at firft only lour feet from the ground, and raifed as. 

 the trees advance in height. Apples on paradife Jlocis 

 beft fuit for efpaliers in fmall gardens, and pears on 

 quince "flocks, as they maintain a fmall fize; but they 

 pfe apt to decay by the cutting they mult have, and fo 

 tie not prove enduring trees. 



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