Or j An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees., &c.

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CHAP. V.

Of the Place and Order.

W E do seriously prefer a very wild Orchard , as mainly intendedfor the publick Utility, and to our purpose of obliging the' re ople, as with a speedy 'Plantation yielding Store for Cider : Uponthis it is that we do so frequently inculcate how well they thrive uponArable, whilst the continuing it so accelerates the Growth in al-most half the Time: And if the Arable can be so levell’d ( as com-monly we lee it for Barley Land) then without Detriment it mayassume the Ornament of Cyrus , and flourilh in the Quincunx.

If it be /hallow Land, or must be rais’d with high Ridges, then ’tisnecessary to have more regard of planting on the tops of thoseEminencies, and to excuse the unavoidable Breach of the Decujfis, asmy Lord Verulam exculeth the Defect of our human Fancies in theConstellations, which obey the Omnipotent Order rather than ours:.Add to this the Rigor of the Royal Society, which approves more ofPlainness and Usefulness, than of Niceness and Curiofity ; whilstMany putting themselves to the vast Charge of levelling their Grounds,oftentimes make them but the worse ; since where the Places are full ofgastly Inequalities, there may be planted some sorts of Cider-fruit ,Which is apt by the great Burden to be press’d down to the Ground,and there (whilst it hides Irregularities ) to bear much better, andabundantly beyond Belief; for so have been seen many such recumbentPear-Trees bear each of them two, three, yea, even to fix or moreHog/heads yearly. '

And for this Cider, whilst we prefer some sorts of Wildings whichdo not tempt the Palate of a Thief by the Caution we shall nyt pro-voke any Man to repent his Charge from the Necessity of. richer andmore refer TS Enclosures ; though we have frequently seen divers Or-chards successfully planted on very poor Arable, and even in stonyGlebe, GravelzxsA. Clay, and that pretty high.on the Sides and decli-vities of Hills, where it only bears very short Grafs, like to the mostordinary Common, not worth the Charge of Tillage : And yet eventhere the Tenants and Con finers sometimes enclose it for the Fruit,and find their Reward, though not equally to fitch Orchards as areplanted on better Ground, and in the Vallies. Hence we suggest,that if there be no Statute for it, ’twere to be wished there were aLaw which fcould allow Endeavours of this Nature out of the com-mon Field, to enclose for these Encouragements, since both the Pub-hck and the Poor ( whatever the Clamour is) are‘advantaged by suchEnclosures, as Tujfer in his old Rhimes, and all indifferent Observersa pprehend with good Reason.

True indeed it is, that all Land is not fit sor Orcharding , so as evenwhere to form just Enclosures being either too Jhallow and dry, orto° Vet and starving ; But this (faith the judicious Mr. Buck -land) We ma y aveVf That there are few Parishes or Hamlets in Eng-**nd, where there are not some sat and deep Headlands capable of

lit Trees » an * tbat ( as katb been f aicl ) tbe r aised Banks ofm Inclosures generally by the Advantage of the Depth, Fatness, and

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