Note E182 — 35.
Reading edition
"As concerning Arbors, Seats, etc., in Orchards and Gardens, I advise men to make them of Fruit trees, rather then of Privet, or other rambling stuffe, which yeelds no profit, but only for shade. If you make them of Cherry-trees, Plum-trees, or the like, there will be the same advantage for shade, and all the Fruits superadded. All that can be objected is, that Fruit-trees are longer in growing up then Privet, Virgine Bower, or the like, whereof arbors are commonly made. It is answered. Though Fruit-trees are something longer in covering an Arbor, then some other things, yet they make sufficient amends in their lasting and bearing fruits."—Austen's Treatise of Fruit Trees, 1657, p. 61.