A treatise on the culture of the apple & pear, and on the manufacture of cider & perry / by T. A. Knight.

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple & pear, and on the manufacture of cider & perry / by T. A. Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of more hardy kinds than the apple, are well known to grow much better when planted near enough to afford each other protection, than when totally insulated. It may be supposed that trees growing in -distant rows will not regularly occupy the whole surface of the ground with their roots, but these always extend far beyond the branches, and will meet across very wide intervals. Closely planted orchards, where the trees afford each other protection, wTill ever be found most productive in a climate which is as subject as ours to great and sudden changes of temperature; but nevertheless, there are situations in which single trees, particularly such whose growth is tall and aspiring, will best pay the planter and the community. When the branches of a single tree are raised mode- nately high from the ground by the length