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also almonds, quinces, gooseberries, currants, raspberries, and every 
other kind of hardy fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, which are usual- 
ly planted either in the fruit-garden or orchard. 
You may also prune each and every of the above kinds, according 
to the directions given in this month, March and October; and in 
the two last months, you will find ample instructions, both for pre- 
paring the ground, and planting the various kinds of fruit-trees 
above mentioned. 
THE ORCHARD. 
The Orchard is a department consigned entirely to the growth of 
standard fruit trees, for furnishing a large supply of the most useful 
kinds of fruit; in which you may have as standards, apple, pear, 
plum, cherry, peach, apricot, quince, almond, and nectarine trees; 
also mulberries, filberts, medlars, and berberries; Spanish chesnuts, 
and English walnuts; which two latter, are more particularly appli- 
cable for the boundaries of large orchards, in which they will screen 
the other trees, from impetuous winds and cold blasts, all of which 
are to be arranged in rows, at the distances directed in March and 
October; in which months you will find ample directions for raising, 
propagating, and planting, the various kinds of fruit trees, necessary 
for all the departments. 
But sometimes, Orchards consist entirely of apple trees, particu- 
larly when apples are wanted in large quantities, for cyder, or whis- 
key-making; and sometimes whole orchards of very considerable 
extent, of peach trees, when the fruit is designed for distillation; 
likewise entire orchards of cherry trees, but particularly within a 
moderate distance of large cities and towns, where sale can be ob- 
tained for the fruit; pear orchards are also extensive where people 
are in the habit of making perry. 
A general orchard, however, composed of all the before mention- 
ed fruit trees, should consist of a treble or more proportion of apple 
and peach trees, because they are considerably the most useful fruits, 
particularly the former; as they, exclusive of their use in distilling 
and cyder-making, may be continued lor table use, in the different 
sorts, the whole year round. 
The utility of a general Orchard, or Orchards, both for private 
use and profit, stored with the various sorts of fruit-trees, must be 
very great; as well as afford infinite pleasure from the delightful 
appearance it makes from early spring, till late in autumn: in 
spring the various trees in blossom are highly ornamental; in sum- 
mer the pleasure is heightened, by observing the various fruits ad- 
vancing to perfection; and as the season advances, the mature 
growth of the different sorts arriving to perfection in regular suc- 
cession, from May until the end of October, must afford great de- 
light, as well as profit. 
