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Fruit well -tailed. And if your 

 Ground is fo fituated, that you are 

 at full Liberty which Way to make 

 the Efpaliers, I would advife the 

 placing the Lines from the Eaft a 

 little inclining to the South, and 

 toward the Weft a little inclining to 

 the North, that the Sun may flnne 

 between the Rows in the Morning 

 and Evening when it is low ; for in 

 the Middle of the Day, when the 

 Sun is advanced far above the Ho- 

 rizon, it will mine over the Tops 

 of the Efpaliers, and reach the Sur- 

 face of the Earth about their Roots ; 

 which is a Matter of more Confe- 

 quence than many People are aware 

 of. 



The Sorts of Apples proper for 

 Efpaliers are trie Golden Pippin, 

 Nonpareil, Rennette Grife, Aroma- 

 tic Pippin, Holland Pippin, French 

 Pippin, Wbeders Ruffe t, Pifc's 

 RulTet, with feveral others. The 

 Seafon for planting, and the Method 

 of pruning and training thefe Trees, 

 you'll lee under the Articles of Ap- 

 ples, and Pruning. 



The Sorts of Pears proper for an 

 •Efpalier are Summer and Autumn 

 Fruits ; for fome of the Winter Pears 

 feldom fucceed well in an Efpalier. 

 Thefe Trees, if defigned for a itrong 

 moift Soil, mould be upon Quince- 

 itocks; but if for a dry Soil, upon 

 Free-ftocks. Their Diftance of Plant- 

 ing muft be regulated by the Grov.th 

 of the Trees, which are more un- 

 equal in Pears than Apples, and 

 mould therefore be more carefully 

 examined before they are planted. 

 As for thofe Pears upon Free-ftocks, 

 the Dftance mould never be lefs 

 than twenty- five Feet for moderate- 

 growing Trees; but for vigorous 

 'Shooters, the Space of 30 or 35 Feet 

 is little enough, efpecially if the 

 Soil be ftrong, in which Cafe they 

 Ihould be planted at a greater Di- 



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ftance. The particular Sorts of 

 Pears I would recommend for an 

 Efpalier, are the Jargonelle, Blan- 

 quette, Poire Jans Peau, Summer 

 Boncrctien, Hamdc?i\ Burgamot, Poire 

 du Prince, Autumn Bergamot, V Am- 

 brette, Gros RouJJclet, Cbaumontelle, 

 Beurre du Roy, Le Marquis, Creffane^ 

 with many other of lefs Note, al- 

 ways remembring, that thofe Pears 

 w hich are of the melting Kind, will 

 do better in Efpalier than the break- 

 ing Pears, which feldom ripen well 

 on Efpalier : you Ihould alio be care- 

 ful of the Stocks thefe are grafted 

 on ; for if the breaking Pears are 

 grafted upon Quiflce-ilocks, the 

 Fruit will be ftony. As for the 

 Method of Planting, fee the Article 

 Pear ; and for Pruning and Manage- 

 ing, fee Pruning. 



I fhall now give Directions for 

 making the Efpalier, to which the 

 Trees are to be trained : but this I 

 would not have done until the third 

 Year after the Trees are planted ; 

 for while they are young, it will be 

 fufficient to drive a few fhort Stakes 

 into the Ground on each Side of the 

 Trees, to which the Branches ihould 

 be faftened in an horizontal Pofition, 

 as they are produced ; which Stakes 

 may be placed nearer, or at a farther 

 Diilance, according as the Shoots 

 produced may require, and will be 

 iutneient for the three firft Years; 

 for mould you frame the Efpalier 

 the firft Year the Trees are planted, 

 the Poles would rot before the Efpa- 

 lier is covered. The cheapeft Me- 

 thod to make thefe Efpaliers is with 

 Ath-poles, of which you mould have 

 two Sorts ; one of the largeft Size, 

 which contains thirteen Poles in a 

 Bundle, and the other Size thofe of 

 half an Hundred : the firft or largeft- 

 fize Poles Ihould be cut about (even 

 Feet and an half long ; thefe are in- 

 tended for upright Stakes, and muft 

 Hh2 be 



