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This Diftance, I doubt not, will 

 be obje&ed to, by many who have 

 not fully attended to the Growth of 

 thefe Trees ; efpecially as it hath 

 been the general Practice of moil 

 Gardeners, to plant thefe Trees at 

 lefs than half the Diftance which is 

 here mention'd : but whoever will 

 b» at the Trouble to view any of 

 thefe Trees which have been fome 

 Years {landing, will always find, 

 where by Accident one of thefe 

 Trees has been planted againft a 

 Building, where the Branches have 

 had room to fpread, that this Tree 

 has produc'd more Fruit than twelve 

 Trees which have been crouded 

 clofe, and have not had room for 

 their Branches to extend. There 

 are fbtte Pear-trees now growing 

 which fpread more than fifty Feet 

 in Length, and are upward of twenty 

 Feet high, which produce a much 

 grea cr Quantity of Fruit than, if 

 there ha'J been three Trees they wolud 

 have dtme, in the fame room, as 

 tucre aft Examples enough to prove, 

 where Tree'; are planted againft 

 Houles, and the Ends of Buildings, 

 at about twelve Feet, or much lefs 

 Diftance ; becaufe there is Height 

 of Waging for them to grow : which 

 is the Reaibn commonly given by 

 thole who plant thefe Trees fo clofe 

 together. But one Tree will bear 

 more Fruit, when the Branches are 

 train'd horizontally, than three or 

 four Trees, whofe Branches are led 

 upright : and there never can be any 

 Danger of the upper Part of the Wall 

 being left naked or unfurninYd; for 

 I have feen a Pear-tree which has 

 fpread more than fifty Feet in Width, 

 and cover 'd the Wall upward of 

 thirty fix Feet in Height. This was 

 a Summer Bon-cretien Pear, and was 

 extremely fruitful, which rarely hap- 

 pens to this Sort when they are not 

 aliow'd a large Share of room. The 



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fineft Tree of this Sort of Pear which 

 I ever have feen, was a large Stan- 

 dard-tree, in my own PofTeffion, 

 whofe Stem was not more than ten 

 Feet high, where the Branches 

 came out regularly on every Side, 

 and extended near thirty Feet 

 from the Trunk, many of which 

 were by the Weight of the Fruit in 

 Summer brought down to the 

 Ground ; fo were obliged to be fup- 

 ported with Poles all around the 

 Tree toward the Extremity of the 

 Branches, to prevent their lying up- 

 on the Ground ; and this Tree had 

 its Branches fo difpos'd as to form a 

 natural Parabola of forty Feet in 

 Height, bearing from the loweft to 

 the higheft Branches : fo that in a 

 kindly Seafon, when the BlofToms 

 efcaped the Froft, it hath produe'd 

 upward of two thoufand Pears; 

 which were much better flavour'd 

 than any of the fame Sort, which I 

 have yet tafted. This Inftanee I 

 mention, only to mew how much 

 one of thefe Trees will fpread, if 

 proper room is allowed it ; and alfo 

 to obferve, that as the Branches of 

 this Tree had never been fhorten'd, 

 fo they were fruitful to their Extre- 

 mities. This (hews the Abfurdity of 

 the French Gardeners, who do not 

 allow more than ten or twelve Feet 

 Diftance to thefe Trees ; and fome 

 of their molt approved Writers on 

 this Subject have advifed the plant- 

 ing an Apple-tree between rhe Pear- 

 trees, where they are allowed twelve 

 Feet; and yet thefe Authors after- 

 ward fay, that a good Pear-tree will 

 lhoot three Feet each Way in one 

 Year : therefore, according to their 

 own Account, the Trees fo planted 

 muft have their Branches meet to- 

 gether in two or three Years at moil ; 

 and what muft be the Cafe with fuch 

 Trees, in five or fix Years, is not 

 difficult to know. But this Method 

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