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of air, they have been drawn up to the moft difproportioncd 

 heights, and this misfortune nothing but cutting over will ef- 

 fedlually cure ; but the different periods here dirccTted for thin- 

 ning them, will generally anfwer your intentions. 



From the late and now univerfal tafte in all new and expen- 

 five defigns in the garden way, of throwing a large extent of 

 ground about the houfe into lawns of grafs, many fruit-trees, 

 which in former times generally grew in the kitchen garden, 

 and thefe gardens adjoining to the houfe, are now deffcroyed, 

 from whence common fruit has rifen in price to the full propor- 

 tion of every other article in life. I cannot therefore but be- 

 lieve, that an orchard, which, fenfibly planted, will little or not 

 at all impede the growth of grafs, corn, and other vegetables, 

 would foon become the higheft improvement the lands in this 

 country are capable of receiving : But a differtation on Fruit- 

 trees being foreign to the prefent fubjecfl, I only mention, that 

 if fome of the moft favourable quarter! for fruit were inclofed, 

 and planted with ftrong well-cultivated trees of them, in four- 

 teen or fixteen years, every tenth acre of the orchard would cer- 

 tainly pay the whole expence laid out in our Foreft, and lay the 

 foundation, without further expence, of an eftate, increafing 

 eonfiderably for ages. Apples and Pears, the moft certain and 

 profitable ftandard fruits, will fucceed in land of any tolerable 

 depth, though coarfe and heavy, having been expofed and me- 

 liorated by the winter's froft and fumnier's fim^ 



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