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from ten to fifteen feet apart ; peaches and nectarines from fif- 

 teen to twenty ; figs, eighteen to twenty (or more, as the bear- 

 ing branches are not to be shortened) ; apricots, fifteen feet for 

 the early sorts, and eighteen to twenty-four for the latter, and 

 fi'eely growing kinds ; cherries, from fifteen to twenty ; pears, 

 from twenty to twenty-four ; apples, on dwarf stocks, fifteen feet, 

 and if on free stocks, thirty feet ; plums, fifteen to thirty-five ; 

 mulberries, fifteen to twenty. Upon walls, he adds, of only 

 nine feet in height, the distance from each tree should be 

 increased to one-fourth ; and upon those only six feet high, 

 the distance should be increased one-half 



The above arrangement of the wall-fruit-trees refers to walls 

 that are not hot icalls ; upon such, the arrangement may be 

 somewhat different, and upon them many fruits may with pro- 

 priety be planted, that would not succeed in ordinary situations, 

 upon solid walls, that is, walls not heated by artificial means. 

 The general prejudice against hot walls is, wt hcpe, now likely 

 to be exploded, for if they be heated by hot water, as already 

 noticed, they will give a temperature more equable, the want 

 of which has hitherto been their greatest defect, one part of the 

 wall being over-heated, vrhile another was scarcely heated at 

 all. In gardens, where the principal walls, having a southern 

 aspect, may be covered with glass, peaches and other of tlie 

 finer fruits may be successfully cultivated upon eastern and 

 western aspects, having the walls hollow and heated by hot 

 water, both sides of the wall deriving an equal degree of 

 heat, and that from the same consumption of fuel. 



In situations where, from unfavorable circumstances, the trees 

 may be expected to be short-lived, they should be planted 

 much nearer to each other ; as, in some situations, the trees 

 would be worn out before they could be brought to cover so 

 gi-eat a space as has been allotted to them in the foregoing re- 

 mai'ks. 



