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and the cheapeft, are the natural Defence of 
Trees, planted on the Edges of an Orchard in 
a Row y and of thefe Sorts are Elms, or Poplar, 
or Afpen-Trees, for a low, wettifh Ground ; 
and for Hedges, the Willow, the Sallow, the 
Alder, or the White Thorn. But for higher 
dryer Ground, the Walnut-Tree, or the Beech, 
or the Lime, or the Sycamore-Tree; but the 
beft of all others for a large, high, ftrong, and 
mod; profitable Fence, is the Perry Pear-Trees, 
for either wet or dry, high or low Grounds, 
for keeping them warm, and fecuring them in 
the mod: rigorous cold Seafon from the nip- 
ping North and Ead: Winds, that fometimes 
freeze and fpoil, and even kill many Fruit- 
Trees, the younger Sort efpecially ; as it hap- 
pened in the great frofty Years of 1710, and 
1716, and in the Year 1740, when the long 
Frods were fo intenfe, as to dedroy great 
Numbers of Fruit and other Trees: — And later, 
from the fcorching Heats, that fometimes 
burn and dry up the Leaves and Bloffoms, and 
breed the Maggot in them, to the Lofs of all, 
or the greateft Part of the Apple or Pear Crop. 
' The Situation of Land mojl proper for a fruit- 
ful Orchard , and the Ordering of it ; by another 
Hand . — So far (fays he) as it lieth in, one’s 
Power to choofe a Plot of Ground for an Or- 
chard, let it be done with refpedt to the fol- 
lowing Advantages. Firjl , It fhould lie con- 
veniently near him, declining and lying open 
to the South, or South- Ead;, or South-Wed:, 
and 
