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Account of some New Apples. 



more consequence to the health of the Apple Tree than 

 plenty of light and air. The instructions of the late Mr. 

 Philip Miller, on this head, are so pointed, and I see 

 so many Apple Trees smothered either by their own branches 

 or those of other trees, that I cannot do better than quote 

 his words. After directing the standard trees to be planted 

 at the distance of forty feet every way, and the dwarfs at 

 that of twenty feet, he says, " I am aware how many enemies 

 I shall raise by retrenching the great demand which must of 

 necessity be made in the several nurseries of England, if this 

 practice be adopted, but as I deliver my sentiments freely oo 

 every article, aiming at nothing more than the information of 

 my readers, so I hope there will be found none of my profes- 

 sion of such mercenary tempers as to condemn me for telling 

 truth, though it may not always agree with their interests."' 



I feel no fear in referring to this great gardener's work, 

 because all the principal Nurserymen, who now supply the 

 public in the vicinity of London, are men of too much libe- 

 rality to recommend a less distance, than the above ; and in 

 the present opulent state of this country, the original price ot 

 the trees is comparatively so trifling, that jf any one plants 

 double the number which ought to remain, he will be repaid 

 more than a hundred fold, in the few years, that the alternate 

 trees are suffered to stand. This is a practice, therefore, which 

 1 have not scrupled to recommend ; but, after all, whether a 

 gentleman plants many or few trees, his future success and 

 gratification depend principally upon the judgment of his 

 gardener, in choosing such trees in the nursery, as have been 

 grafted from bearing branches ; and if I thought myself au- 

 thorised to give any hints to our Nurserymen, it would be 



