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"That I have been very liberal, if not extravagant, in ground, 

 Ijy the diftances allowed the plants, and that few nurferymen 

 'have fuch an extent of it as to proceed deeply in this plan, is a 

 refleaion I am fatisfied will be made by numbers ; though, 

 that I have not exceeded a proper bounds, long experience has 

 convinced me, and will others who make the experiment as 

 fairly as I have done : But if my aflertion fliould not be thought 

 fufhcient without another reafon, I fliall give one that I hope 

 will convince all, and that, by making proper ufe of the vacancies, 

 the prefent fyftem may turn out even frugal. The trees, 

 till they are fix or feven feet high, are allowed no greater diflance 

 than every honeft and ingenious nurferyman will admit to be a 

 proper medium ; after which, from the increafed diftances, 

 the plants being annually pruned as they ought, the ground may 

 be crop'd with Turnips, Onions, Leek, Carrot, Beans, Cabbage,- 

 Colly flower, and a variety of other garden herbs, without the fmall- 

 eft injury to the trees, or the herbs receiving any injury from 

 them ; particularly the early crops, from which I have frequent- 

 ly had profitable returns : Early turnips particularly, and 

 other tender roots and greens, in fevere fprings, when they have 

 been totally cut off in the open quarters of the garden, between 

 the lines of trees, from the fhelter they afford, I have often found 

 fucceed 5 from which circumftance it is demonftrable, that 

 trees planted at confiderable diftances, and their fuperfluous 

 branches regularly pruned off, may be cultivated at a moderate 

 expence. With refpe(5l to nurferymen who have fmall portions 

 of land, by adhering to the pra6lice here directed, they may in- 

 large their bounds at a fmall expence, as the annual returns 

 from the kitchen crops amongft the trees, if well cultivated, vail 

 go far to pay both the ground rent and labour. 



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