■6© TREATISE on. 



^vcll afiiircd of, is, that the fruit of the fecond and third forts, 

 commonly paffing under the names here given them, and of 

 which I have feen and eat many, are feemingly very different, 

 and much finer fruit than the others : Therefore, to make fure 

 of the belt, at leafl for a gentleman's private ufe, I advife that 

 thefe tv/o forts be inarched on the common Walnut, in Vv'hich 

 they will fucceed and produce fruit in one third part of the time 

 they would do from feeds, tho' the tree will not be either fo large 

 or fo lafling. 



Of all trees the Walnut is one of the moft difficult to reduce 

 to any regular uniform appearance ; it naturally grows in a ragged 

 diforderly manner, and pruning it being deftrucStive, it defpifes 

 the art and induftry of the gardener : With refpe6l then to its 

 form and growth, we will leave it to nature, and only endeavour 

 to point out fome aids that will mudi affifh her in the early and 

 plentiful produ6lion of good fruit, and which unaffifled nature 

 will be many years in effeding. 



Inarching the particular kinds you chufe, has already been 

 mentioned ; but to make extenfive plantations for fruit, than 

 which few improvements would in time give greater returns of 

 gain, proceed as follows : 



Having procured a parcel of the largefl and beft-ripen'd nuts, 

 of the fecond and third forts, from France, provide alfo a parcel 

 of thin fiat flones, tyle-fherds, or flates, from a foot to eighteen 

 inches broad ; lay them clofe together in lines, the length of the 

 quarter in the nurfery intended to be planted with the mits ; bury 

 them in the ground about eight inches deep, and plant your 



