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£ul pruning : In this place, if the foil is rich, let them remain 

 .three, or, if poor, fom' years. 



By this time the trees will be in a proper condition for re- 

 moval to where they are defigned to remain for good, which, 

 as they are chiefly intended for fruit, ought to be a dry found 

 land, with a fandy, gravelly, or chalky bottom, but by no rneans 

 in a deep heavy mould, where the roots would ftill tend down- 

 ward, imbibe the crudities of an ingrateful foil, and get below 

 the influences of the fun and rains, which would not only afFe6l 

 the flavour of the fruit, but keep the trees much longer from be- 

 coming fruitful. 



If they are planted by way of orchard, from thirty to thirty- 

 five feet will be a reafonable diftance ; but why may we not 

 plant them as they do in Burgundy, in their fields of wheat and 

 other grain, at lixty or feventy feet diftance, which is fo far from 

 hurting the crop, that they look on them as a great preferver of 

 it, by keeping the ground warm in winter, neither do the roots 

 hinder the plough ? and if the Burgundians find their flicker 

 ufeful with them, how infinitely more fo mufi: it be in this cold 

 ifland of ours ? But the advantages accruing from the general 

 culture of this tree in Fiance, are not peculiar to that country 

 alone ; for over great part of Germany, they find their gain from 

 it fo great, that in many places a law lately fubfiAed, and I be- 

 lieve does to this day, by which no young farmer is permitted to 

 marry a wife, till he bring proof that he has planted, and is the 

 father of a certain number of Walnut trees. The fruit will 

 jipen perfedlly well in all the cultivated parts of Great Britain ; 

 and the method of managing the trees, as here diredled, being 



