i« OF THE FORMATION SECT. III. 



of free growth are hardly to be kept within tolerable 

 compafs on low walls ; but if attempted, fhould have 

 at leaft thirty feet allowed them. The beft forts of 

 winter pears deferve ^Joutherly 'wall to ripen them well, 

 and improve them in fize and flavour : The gable end 

 of a houfe is well adapted for a pear-iree, as it affords 

 room which they require. Apples may do on a wall, 

 (and if any on a good wall, let it.be the golden pippin) 

 yet the praclice is feldom adopted : The fame may be 

 faid of mulberries, though -they come to bearing much 

 fooner againft a wall ; but they need not have a South 

 afpecl:, indeed it has been aflei ted, that they do the beft 

 in a N&rth one. For furnifliing uwlfs, chufe trees of 

 moderate wood, rather than ftrong, young, well rooted, 

 clean, and healthy. 



When the planting of a garden is finifhed, it will 

 be a good way to have a plan of it taken, with the 

 names of every peculiar tree marked thereon > in their 

 place, to be affured of the forts when they come to 

 bear. Some have the names of the trees painted on 

 Boards, and placed behind them, to which if added the 

 time of ripening (fixed late enough) it would tend to 

 prevent a premature plucking by vifitcrs, &c. 



Kere it may be obferyed, that, if any evergreen hedges 

 are defired, in or about the garden, yew, box, alaternus, 

 celajirus, phillyrea, and pyracaniha, may be kept low, 

 and clipped in form, if fo defired : In addition to which, 

 if a few rojes were intermixed* it would. have a pretty 

 erfeft, A deciduous hedge for fubdivifion, or fcreen, &c. 

 may be made of ehns or limes, fetting the larger plants 

 at five feet afunder, and a fmaller one between. Or an 

 ordinary fence, or fubdivifion, maybe q.uic.kly formed 

 of elder cuttings, ftuck in at two feet afunder, which 

 mav be kept cut within bounds.- 



The walls come next under confideration, and they 

 are to be begun from the beft wall; the border of which 

 being regularly levelled and fettled, the walk is to be 

 governed by it, A wide border next the South (as was 



faid) 



