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near the hedge, stands a row of black currants. These fill up the east 
slip. 
The apple-trees are all the dwarfer growing sorts, and are kept 
pruned like a bush; not allowed to rise higher than about six feet, and 
every means taken to check luxuriant growth and preserve a dwarfish 
habit. This induces fruitfulness, while they are constantly under com¬ 
mand of both eye and hand. Such a rank of trees at equal distances, 
and of uniform size, are highly ornamental when in bloom, and a rich 
spectacle when bending with fruit. To keep them in the desired cha¬ 
racter certainly requires much care, but they are well worthy the labour 
bestowed. 
The raspberry and black currant-trees behind, are pruned in the 
usual manner ; but the former are trained to a slight post and double 
rail fence, placed close behind the row of plants. 
The west slip is planted in an exactly similar manner, but the kinds 
are not the same. The front row are dwarf pears, cherries and plums, 
and the three back rows are gooseberry and common currants. Rows of 
strawberries are planted within a foot of the walk in both slips, and some¬ 
times rows of late broccoli are dibbed in between the ranks of trees. 
This disposition of the slips is convenient in having the different 
kinds requiring the same treatment near together, and their occupying 
the strip of land between the pleasure-ground and kitchen-garden forms 
no very incongruous step from the one to the other. 
I have next to speak of the orchard at the top of the garden. This, 
as you will perceive by the outlines already sent you, is a semicircular 
space of ground, of which the width of the garden is the diameter. The 
ground was prepared by trenching about sixteen inches deep, the soil 
a mellow loam on a dry gravel. The trees are planted in curved lines 
ranging parallel with the exterior boundary. The outer row are baking 
pears, avalnuts, caroon cherries, and damson plums, as being the tallest 
growers. The next row within, are the tallest growing sort of apples, 
and the other more central rows are the dwarfer kinds. In the 
openings all over the surface, filbert-trees trained like low bushes, are 
dotted, together with two or three mulberry-trees. The whole orchard 
is in grass, and mowed occasionally; the trees are generally healthy, 
and when the season is favourable they bear plentifully. 
Thus have I given the various features of the kitchen and fruit 
gardens, from which you may have gained as perfect an idea of this 
portion of the estate as is necessary in conveying to you a general view 
of the whole. Our next excursion will be in the park. 
Yours, &c. A B. 
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