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CHAPTER VII. 
THE KITCHEN-GARDEN CONTINUED-THE 
MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES. 
The fruit trees in a kitchen garden are of 
three kinds: the wall trees, the espaliers, and 
the standards. To these may be added the 
fruit shrubs, and the vines; which last are 
generally grown under glass. 
The Wall-Fruit Trees .—There are two 
things on which the welfare of wall-fruit trees 
materially depends, viz. the construction of 
the wall, and that of the border. The walls 
of kitchen gardens are very generally made 
too high: a serious fault in many respects, 
but particularly in impeding the free passage 
of the sun and air to the fruit. It has indeed 
been found, by experience, that w r alls about 
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