MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 55 



thirty-nine old Morellos planted on a North wail 176 yards 

 long, and ten feet high, was in a few years able to fell yearly, 

 on an average, from thirty to forty pounds worth of fruit 

 produced from them, befides fuppiying his own family. In 

 fome years the Market-Gardener who fold them allowed him 

 three fhillings per pound weight. 



A row of Dwarf Cherry-trees that ftood againft an old 

 paling in Kenfington Gardens, with an old thorn hedge at the 

 back of it, (which every year fo infected them with a blight, 

 accompanied by an immenfe number of caterpillars and other 

 infects, that even in a fine year we could not gather eight 

 bafkets from the whole row) became fo fruitful after the 

 hedge and paling were removed, that we gathered forty-two 

 pounds a-day for fix fuccefllve weeks, befide what the birds, 

 wafps, and flies deftroyed. 



This eftimate is within the bounds of truth ; and I mention 

 the fact to ftimulate Market-Gardeners and Farmers, who 

 have large orchards and gardens, to exert themfelves in 

 trying every method, however unimportant it may at firft ap- 

 pear, to improve and render them more fruitful. 



The Duke and Heart Cherries from thefe trees were as fine 

 as any that were produced from wall trees ; and, as they are 

 much more productive, I have been induced to take up many 

 of the old renovated trees from the walls, and plant them out 

 for dwarf ftandards, fuppiying their places with Pears, 

 Plums, Peaches, &c. 



In all old gardens and orchards throughout the kingdom, 

 and particularly in Kent, whence the London Markets are 

 chiefly fupplied with Apples and Cherries, the greater part of 

 the old trees will hardly bear fruit fufficient to pay the ex- 

 pence of gathering it ; but if the above method of pru- 

 ning, 



