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TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



planted, fhould be well ploughed or trench d, and the trees 

 planted, at fir ft, in rows fix feet apart, and the fame diftance 

 from tree to tree in the rows, in the quincunx order, and thus 

 to remain till they come into bearing. This will be neceffary, 

 as there is no dependance on the fort of fruit that trees raifed 

 from feed may produce. After you have made choice of thofe 

 which bear the b eft fruit, the other may be planted out for 

 timber, or cut down for ftakcs, or any other purpofe. The 

 trees left for bearing muft be thinned, by taking out every 

 other tree in the remaining rows, as they increafe in fize, till 

 they ftand at the diftance proper for full-grown trees ; which 

 may be from twenty-four to forty-eight feet according to the 

 richnefs of the foil and the progrefs which the trees make. 



In trimming the ftems of Walnut-trees, cut off the f hoots 

 and fmall branches clofe to the bole ; and in lopping, cutting 

 out crofs branches, or fuch as are damaged by winds and 

 other accidents, always cut at a fork or eye, other wife part of 

 the branch will die and injure the tree. But, whether only a 

 part or the whole of a branch be cut oft, the Compofition 

 ought immediately to be applied. 



Formerly, Walnut-tree was much ufed for building, and 

 for hou fen old furniture ; but Mahogany and other foreign 

 timbers, have now in a great meafure fuperfeded it, eipecially 

 in the latter article. This timber will do very well for up- 

 rights, but is rather too brittle for joifts, rafters, &c. and, when 

 properly polifhed, it looks very well in chairs, tables, 

 bureaus, &c. It is, at prefent., a good deal ufed for gun-ftocks. 

 Walnuts thrive beft in a deep rich foil, but will do very well 

 in a chalky foil, as may be ieen on the hills in Surry, in the 

 neighbourhood of Leatherhead, Godftone, and Carfhalton; 

 and, at Beddington-Park, the feat of the antient family of the 



Carews, 



