By Mr. Charles Harrison. 



they would do little afterwards ; but this opinion proved to 

 be erroneous. 



The aspect of the chief wall is south-south-east, it is eleven 

 feet and a half high, and the soil is a strong loam mixed with 

 a little marl. Seventeen of the old trees are trained to this 

 wall, and entirely cover it, being planted at the distance of 

 sixteen feet apart. The remaining three trees are upon a 

 separate wall, twelve feet high, similarly situated ; these were 

 planted by myself in 1811, and, together, extend over one 

 hundred and one feet of wall in length, intersecting each 

 other ; they would have spread farther, had they not been 

 very much shortened. 



In 1817 I trenched the borders to the bottom, two feet 

 and a half deep, turning the top soil, which had been well 

 enriched with vegetable manure,* to the bottom, and in the 

 trenching mixed with the new upper surface rotten horse 

 dung and vegetable manure. When the trench was open, 

 and the roots of the trees bare, I pruned them in to within 

 four feet of the bole, (trenching the earth to within two feet 

 of the bole,) and after pruning the roots, I laid them care- 

 fully upon the soil, and trenched forwards, as before stated. 



The twenty trees now remaining are, 

 4 Newington Nectarines 

 2 French Magdalen Peaches 



2 Red Magdalen ditto 



3 Royal George ditto 



* By vegetable manure I mean a mixture of decayed cabbages, bean stalks, 

 and the refuse of the garden, which have been suffered to lie together in a heap 

 for several years till they have become quite decomposed, and in a fit state to use 

 as dressing for the border. 



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