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

. a great deal more than the Drowth of the most parching Summer, andthat more die and languisti with that Fever, than starve with Cold mWinter: Since the drvest Spring or hottest Summer maybe supply d withdiscreet Watering, Refreshing, and Shade; whilst the otherwise suddenindicating of Trees for an early Transplantation, expose them to a te-dious and uncertain Tryal how they will bear it; all hasty alterations inClime and Air being as dangerous in Vegetables as Animals-. This Gen-tleman, therefore, it seems, prunes, dresses, and fits such Trees as hedesigns to remove in dead of Winter, in order to a later Sealbn, as inwhat we have said of the Pit, whereby they preserve their Vigor; andin this Operation he favours the large and most spreading Roots, whichothers cut them short, to furnish new ones; which therefore is the bet-ter, we leave to experience, and whether lo applicable to Foresters asthe Orchard : But this indeed belongs to the Chapter ot * pruning ra-ther: In the mean while, what Trees and Plants should stand withoutremoving, a Gardiner should learn, and even get by heart, the excellentRules given by Mr. de la Quinteny, Fart VI. Cap. VII. and fromPage 61 to 186 .

The very Roots of Trees planted in the Ground, and buried within aquarter of an Inch, or little more, of the level of the Bed , will sproutand grow to be very good Stocks. This and the other being Experi-ments of our own, we thought convenient to mention.

By the oft removal of a JVild-stock, cutting the ends of the Roots ,and dif-branching somewhat of the Head at every change of place, itwill greatly abate of its natural Wildnefs, and in time bring forth morecivil and ingenuous Fruit • Thus Gilly-fiowers do (by oft removals,and at Full-Moon especially ) increase and multiply the Leaves.

Plant not too deep \ for the over-turf is always richer than the next■Mould. How material it is to keep the coast or side of the Stock, aswell in Fruit-Trees as'in Forest , we have sufficiently dilculs’d ; nor isthe Negative to be prov’d.

r For the distance in Fields, they may be set from thirty two to JixtyFoot, so as not to hinder the F lough, nor the benefit of Manure andboil • but in Hedge-rows as much nearer as you please, Sun and Airtonsidet’d.

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Of the Fencing.

S Eeing a Cider-Orchard is but a wild Plantation, best in Arable wellc onclos'd from Beasts, and yet better on the Tops, Ridges, and na-^tral Inequalities, (though with some loss of Order, as we shew’d ) onethe greatest Discouragements is the preserving of our Trees beingP the raising of them so familiar.

_ We have in our Silva treated in particular of this, as of one of the°st material Obstacles ; wherein yet we did purposely omit one Expe -ff **’ 'which came then to our hands from the very Industrious Mr.PVbrd^^ t0 t ^ e l earnec * Beat ♦ You shall haye it in his own

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