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tlealtb of their Mould , yield ready opportunity for planting ; (j e ^and in many Countries Multitudes of Crab-ftocks fit to be graffcd ; /in which latter ( faith he ) I have frequently observed very goody,Fruit-bearing Trees , when in the fame Soil Trees in Orchards hœt&been poor and worth nothing. To conclude,

If the Soil be very bad and unkind, any other Fruit (which it maymore freely yield without requiring much depth, and less Sun ) may '- 1Cplanted instead of Apples. In the mean time, for thole who should rath erchuse to confine their Cider Flantation into a narrower Circle, it has beencalculated, That one Acre of Ground may contain an hundred R e y'firakes at Twenty Foot interval; which (supposing to have cost P i<V jFounds to perfect the Orchard ) may well yield the Owner an HundftBujhels , one Tree with another, at seven Yeats growth; which at b utSix-pence per Bujhel amounting to Fifty Shillings , and the Herbag etwenty, ought to be no discouragement to the Planter ; since byeighth or ninth Year he may expect at the least three hundred Bushel 1and in fruitful Years five hundred Bujhels, worth Eight eenfence theBujhel ; an extraordinary Improvement, as will appear upon calcula-tion.

CHAP. VI.

Of Transplanting, and Distance.

T H E most proper Season for Transplanting is before the IttldFrosts of Winter surprize you, and that is a competent whjbetore Chrifimas: And the main point is, to fee that the Roots Dlarger than the Head-, and the more ways that extends, the better ^firmer.

If the Stock seems able to stand on its own three or four Legs.we may call ’em ) and then after settlement some Stones be heaped olaid about it, as it were gently wedging it fast, and fase from Wi st /j( which Stones may after the lecondor third Year be removed ) & ' vl n.salve from the main danger: For if the Roots be much lhaken the mSpring, it will hardly recover it. £

You may transplant a Fruit-Tree almost at any tolerable Sea jo#the Tear, especially if you apprehend it may be Ipcnt before 7have finish’d your work, having many to remove.- Thus, let yourbe taken up about Allhallontide, ( or as soon as the Leaf beg> n ®fall; ) then having trimm’d and quicken’d the Roots, set them in ^Fit , forty, fifty, ora hundred together, yet so as they may be cm er ,with Mould, and kept very fresh : By the Spring they will be *? u ^well cured of their Wounds , and so ready to strike root and put tot ^that being Transplanted where they are to stand, they will take fud ^ly, and seldom fail; whereas being thus cut at Spring they recover ^greater hazard. I allow the general Opinion is, the early tranlpl an ^ J r eof most Trees, Fruit or Forest. Let us hear that noble Lover of th ,useful Diversions, Mr. Ree de of Lingwardin in Herefordjhtre, jfound of so great success, by deferring the Work about the midd e ^February, however mild the Season prove; finding by expe n f n Mthat the rigid and severe Cold of Winter, retards the motion and thri^

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