MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, kc. 217 



Mr. Urquhart has continued to take up fome of the forefl- 

 trees from time to time, as the fruit-trees f pre ad their 

 branches and require more room. Thus, the clump has be- 

 come a nurfery for foreft-trees ; a great deal of money is 

 faved which would otherwife have been expended in the pur- 

 chafe and carriage of plants ; and from it he has made fome 

 very fine new plantations. The fruit-trees make a handfome 

 orchard, and at the fame time cover the walls of the garden. 



When the fituation will not admit of fuch plantations, I 

 would advife planting fome crofs rows of fruit-trees in the 

 garden, at the diftance of forty or feventy yards from each 

 other, more or lefs according to the fize of the garden. In 

 long rows, one row of trees will be fufficient on each fide of 

 the walk ; but in the fhorter crofs rows, there mould be two 

 rows on each fide. The trees mould not be planted oppofite 

 to each other, but alternately ; fo as that thofe of one row 

 may be oppofite to the open fpaces of the other. Trees 

 planted in this manner will have a good effecl:, and will alfo 

 ferve to break the force of high winds, and prevent a great 

 deal of damage which might otherwife be done to the reft of 

 the trees throughout the garden. Thofe which I would 

 recommend for the above purpofe are dwarfs, with ftems 

 about two feet high, which can eafily be obtained by cutting 

 off the lower branches. 



In laying out a new garden, another very effential point is, to 

 make choice of a good foil. It fhould be two or three feet 

 deep ; but if deeper the better ; of a mellow pliable nature, 

 and of a moderately dry quality ; and if the ground mould 

 have an uneven furface, I would by no means attempt to 

 level it ; for by that uneven nefs, and any little difference there 



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