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eleven yards asunder in the row; this is nearly one tref 
upon 100 square yards, or 48 upon an acre : this, Mr. 
Crane observes, assists the hop culture. The varieties 
of apples, called the Stedman and Knotts-kernel, are 
approved of for cyder apples, and the Barland and 
Linton pears are most comnron here as perry pears; 
the Hampton-rough, a new perry pear, from a parish 
of that name where it was raised, is under trial, and is 
said to have produced some very good perry. The 
fruit trees are here planted out, ready grafted when 
small in the nursery; and Mr. Crane observes, he can 
graft again when they begin to bear, if he does not like 
the sort, and thinks time is gained by planting ready 
grafted. I observe, in the Worcester newspaper, Mr. 
Biggs, nursery and seedsman, of the city of Worces¬ 
ter, often advertises new and approved varieties of 
fruit trees ready grafted for planting. 
Mr. Smith, of Erdiston, in the Vale of the Teme, 
and about six miles from Tenbury, has the greatest 
breadth of orcharding I have seen in the county, be¬ 
longing to any individual; the extent of his fruit plan¬ 
tations is between 100 and 200 acres of different ages, 
and in different stages of growth, but a large propor¬ 
tion in full bearing, and this year being a pretty good 
hit, the fruit is in great profusion, enough to make 
some hundred hogsheads of fruit liquor; he has con¬ 
stantly kept planting young fruit trees in succession, 
and the ground being cultivated for wheat, beans, or 
' other crops, or grazed as pasture, the fruit trees oc¬ 
casion little or no waste of land : a number of hands 
were employed gathering fruit when I was there, Octo¬ 
ber 1st, 1807. Mr. Smith raises fruit trees in his hop 
grounds, but rather sparingly; the soil being a deep, 
Srich, strong loam, the hops grow with great luxuri¬ 
ance, 
