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Or 3 An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees^ &c.

The broader and deeper your Ditch is, the higher will be your Bank,and the securer your Fence-, but then you must add some good Earth inthe second Tear , as before.

I must subjoin, That only Trees os an Upright Growth be thus plan-ted in Open Grounds; because spreading of low growing Trees will bestill within reach os Cattle as they increase: Nor have I met with anyinconvenience in this kindos Transplanting ( which is applicable to allforts of Trees) but that the Mole and the Ant may find ready Enter-tainment the first Tear , and sometime impair a weak rooted Plant;otherwise it rarely miscarries. In sum ,

This manner of Fencing is soon executed by an indifferent Work-man, who will easily set and guard six Trees in a Winter Hay. Thusfar Mr. Buckland. To which we shall only add, That thole which areplanted in the Hedge-rows need none of these Defences; for (I am told )in Herefordshire , in the Plantations of their Quicksets , or any other,all Men did lo superstitiousty place a Crab-stock at every twenty sootdistance, as if they had been under lomc rigorous Statute requiring it;and I am of Opinion, that ’twerc better to be content with Fruit inthe bordering Mounds , than to be at all this trouble to raise Tumps, ortemporary Banks in the midst of an Inclosure ; or if Tears will thrivein the Plain of she. Orchard, as we frequently fee them, ( where neitherApple or Fruit could in appearance be expected ) then Crabs , whichmay be raised on the Mounds , will kindly mix the Liquor into verygood Beverage. And now we mention Crabs , I cannot but approvewhat the Reverend Mr. Walker of Great-Billing near Northamptonsuggests in an obliging Letter to me, concerning the fencing of Fruit-Trees planted abroad in the Fields; namely, the setting about each Treethree or four Crab-stocks or White-thorn , well rooted, and about fourFoot high, at competent distance from the Fruit-Tree , and somewhatbending with their Tops towards it; since these, if they grow, will notbe so apt to be stollen, as either dead Thorns or Posts-. Nor the Treeprobably be more depriv’d of its Nourishment than by a Quick-setHedge. Besides, the Tree may be ty’d to one of the stoutest of theminstead or a Stake.

CHAP. VIII.

Of Pruning Fruit-Trees.

T H E Branches are to be lopfid in proportion to the Bruises of theRoots , whole Fibres else lhould only be quickned, not altoge-ther cut off nor intangled : For the Top, let a little of each Arm be~°Pp’d in Cider-sruit only; but for the ‘Pears , cut two or three Budsheep at the Summities of their aspiring Branches , just above the Eye,Luting ; this will keep them from over-hasty mounting, reduce themlnt o Shape , and accelerate their bearing.

.p To this we add again out of Dr. Beat's Herefordshire Orchards ,2- 3. In a graffed Plant every Bough should be lopped at the veryin Apples and Pears, as in Cherries and Plums, if transplantedithout violation of Roots, which only indeed renders it less necessary.

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