Advice on Placing and Planting Tender Trees and Shrubs from the 1800s

"...trees do love the sun at noon, and yet the south wind is very contrary against their nature, and specially the almond tree, the apricot, the mulberry, the fig tree, the pomegranate tree."

December 9, 1891

On this day, The Guardian shared Leonard Mascall's advice regarding placing tender trees and shrubs.

Mascall said,

"Commonly, ...most trees do love the sun at noon, and yet the south wind is very contrary against their nature, especially the almond tree, the apricot, the mulberry, the fig tree, the pomegranate tree."

A gardener remarked:

"I am sure there is much in this.

It is quite certain that all Japanese trees like shade and a north aspect, and the finest, most fruitful old mulberry tree that I have ever seen is at Rochester, growing in a corner where it looks to the north and east and is thoroughly protected from the south and west."

What I especially loved about this is that even in the 1600s, gardeners would push zones a bit.