ItS TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



on each fide ; which never does any harm to the trees below, 

 provided you keep them nailed to the wall. I have alfo 

 planted Vines between trees on North and Eaft afpecls, and 

 trained them over the tops of the South and Weft walls to 

 fill the upper parts, till the Peaches and Nectarines cover 

 them. I then cut away part of the Vines, leaving only as 

 many (hoots as I may think nec diary. 



Two years ago I removed fome old Apricots that covered 

 a wall about one hundred and fix ty- five feet long, and planted 

 them againft a new wall, leaving five Vines that were planted 

 againft the Piers. Thefe five plants have, in the courfe of 

 two years, covered the above wall from top to bottom, and 

 bear plenty of fine Grapes every year. 1 alfo moved an old 

 Vine on a wall near to the above, and cut it in pretty clofe ; 

 it has in three years fpread twenty-fix yards, and bears veiy 

 fine fruit. 



Againft one of the Piers had been planted a black Ham- 

 burgh Grape; and at the other fide of the fame Pier was 

 planted a Mufcadine, at the diftance of about two feet from 

 each other; I pruned them both according to my method, 

 and, the fecond year after, they produced one thoufand one 

 hundred bunches of fine Grapes. 



• I alfo tried an experiment by taking fome fhoots from a 

 South wall, opening the ground deep enough to lay them in 

 acrofs the footpath at the diftance of about four feet from 

 the wall, and tied them to flakes,, training them as Efpaliers, 

 laying in the wood as directed for walls, and keeping them 

 as low as poffible, that they might not ihade the bottom of 

 the wall : I alfo pruned them as I do thofe againft walls, 

 laying the (hoots in very long, except thofe that were in- 

 tended to bear fruit next year, from which I took off ail the 



