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POMONA:

This of Tenting Jingle Trees ufeth to be done by Rails at great chf‘ges\ or by Hedges and Bullies, every other Tear must be renew

and the Materials not to be had in all places neither. 1 therefore prefer and commend to you the ensiling form of Planting and Fencing*which is more cheap and easy, and which hath other Advantages in 1 *and not commonly known. I never saw it but once, and thatfeElly performed ; but havepraEtis'd it my self with Success: Takethus.

Set your Tree on the Green-svvarth, or five or fix Inches under Jif the Soil be very healthy ; i/'moist or weeping, half a foot abovef »then cut a Trench round that Tree, two foot or more in the clear f r0it-. Lay a rank of the Turfs, with the Grafs outward, upon the inn efide of the Trench towards your Plant, and then a second ^upon the former , and so a third, and fourth, all orderly plac'd, ( as I Aa Fortification) and leaning towards the Tree, after the form °J ,Pyramid, or larger Hop-hill: Always as you place a row of Turfs fcompass , you must fill up the inner part of the Circle with the W,Earth of the second Spit which you dig out of your Trench, andis to be two foot and half wide , or more , as you desire to mountHillock, which by this means you will have rais'd about your P'*near three foot in height. At the Point it needs not be above twoJ u ,<or eighteen Inches diameter , where you may leave the Earth ' tn f or ^.La Diih, to convey the Rain towards the Body of the Tree ; aud nthe top of this Hillock prick up five or fix small Briars or Th 01 ,,,^binding them lightly to the Body of the Plant, and you have fawthe Work.

The Commodities of this kind of Planting are, ^

First, Neither Swine, nor Sheep, nor any other fort s/ Cattleannoy your Trees. # , ){lS

Secondly, Tou may adventure to set the smaller Plants, being *raised and fecur'd from the reach of Cattle. .

Thirdly, Tour Trees fasten in the Hillock against violence ofwithout Stakes to fret and canker them.

Fourthly, If the Soil be wet, it is hereby made healthy. ^ at .Fifthly, If very dry, the Hillock defends from the outward H sSixthly, It prevents the Couch-grass, which for the first ^insensibly robs most Tlants in sandy Grounds apt to graze. And* fLastly, The Grazing-Bank will recompence the niggardlyfor the waste of his Ditch, which otherwise he will sorely bethink- ^In the second or third Tear, (by what time your Roots spread)Trench, if the Ground be moijf or Seasons wet, will beup again by the treading of Cattle; for it need not be cleanses’ jthen you must renew your Thorns: Tet if the Planter be cits . i0 Ltheshould advise a casting of some small quantity of rich Mould ifl +h,bottom of the Trench the fecondTear , which may improve theg r °and invite the Roots to spread.

In this manner of Planting, where the Soil is not rich , thePlanter should add a little quantity to each Root of Earth frot^ Nfquented High-way, or Yard where Cattle are kept ; onesuffice for fix or seven Trees; this being much more proper y *f 0 ple-ten Soil or Loose Earth; the fat Mould best agreeing with the A PrTree.

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