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The intermediate fpaces between peaches, netlarines, 

 and apricots, may have a vine % a di&arf-cherry, or cur* 

 rant, or goofeberry tree, of the early forts, as the fmooth 

 green and fraall red, to come in early ; and improved 

 in the .beauty, fize, and flavour of their fruit, by the 

 advantage of fituation. But wherefoever grapes can 

 be expected to ripen, there let a young plant, or cut- 

 ting, be fet, though the fpace be confined; for the 

 vine (freely as it (hoots) bears the knife well to keep 

 it within bounds. If the wall be high, the cherry, or 

 plum, may be half-ftandards, which being alter a 

 while kept above, will be more out of the w T ay of the 

 principal trees : though dwarfs may be drained fo as 

 not to interfere. Some have planted haif-itandards of 

 the fame kind of fruit as the dwarfs : but which ever 

 way is ufed, let the intermediate trees be pruned away 

 below in good time, in order to accommodate the prin- 

 cipals freely as they mount and extend. The better 

 way however is, when the wall is tolerably covered, 

 to extirpate the intermediate trees, as (when large) 

 they impoverifh the border, and too much rob the 

 principals of nutriment : If taken up well, in feafon, 

 and pruned properly, they may be planted elfewhere. 

 Something merely ornamental may occupy the vacan- 

 cies alfo, as fome double blofjomed fruit tree, paffion tree, 

 rcfes, &c. or in a fine fituation, a pomegranate ; any 

 of which may be removed when their room is wanted. 

 See feftion viii. On planting. 



Plums, cherries, and pears, may occupy the other 

 walls, the two former at about fifteen, or it may be 

 twenty feet afunder. Cherries, except the AforaYtf/will 

 not do well in a full North afpeft ; but any fort 

 of plum (rather a late one) and fummer pears, and alfo 

 nut trees will, if you chufe to train them. There fhould 

 always be fome currants and goofeberries in an E. and 

 N. fituation, at the diftance of eight feet, where thev 

 will be eafily matted, (when ripe,! to come in late, as 

 October,. November^ or perhaps December. Pear trees 



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