Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1731 edition. Excerpt: ... Chap. XLVII. Of an early Fruit-Garden, and the Method of building Walls for ripening and preserving Fruit from Blights. ISHALL make little or no Apology for the Addition of this Chapter, to what I have wrote before concerning the best Method of raising and accelerating of Fruit, altho' I am no great Friend to the forcing of Fruit. Yet those who live northernly, and on cold moist spewy Lands, are living Witnesses of the Necessity there is of taking some extraordinary Methods in assisting of Nature in these her curious Productions; and one very great Advantage which those Gentlemen enjoy above others, is, that they have a very great Plenty of Coals, and those very cheap also, for the Accomplishment of their Desires in this Affair. A Plan something like this, but smaller, Refirtnces has been designed, and is in some Measure'0 plate executed already; for a Gentleman of Ho-' nour and Worth in the North, where Coals and Peat are very plentiful and cheap. The outward Walls, were by me Z 4 chiefly chiefly designed for the more ordinary5 Kind of Peaches, Nectrons, Winter-Pears, Plumbs, &c. and the inner Walls marked with (a) in the Allies under the Arches, (see the Plates, Pages 344. and 3 5*4 Fig. 8, and 9.) are designed for low Walls for the tendered and most curious Fruits that are. It is visible from the Plan and Upright before mentioned, that my Design is to join these low Walls into the high one, which encompasses the whole Garden, near those Arches a a a, &c. by a Slope; reserving those Angles or Corners, marked dddd (see the Plate Page 35-4. Fig. 8 and 9.) where that Junction is, for Figgs, the Double-flowering Pomegranate, and other Fruits and Shrubbs of thole Kinds, which do not require any great Degrees of Heat; which low Walls are...
