SECT. VIII. OF PLANTING. 103 



In a foil that trees are found to car.hr in, and get 

 othenvife difeafed, it is of no ufe (generally fpeaking) 

 to -wait their getting better ; but if there is any fpot of 

 a more promifing quality, thofe that are not too old and 

 far gone may be removed there, and perhaps recover; 

 but let the root be examined, as well as the head, to cut 

 out any difeafed part. If the moots mould be weak the 

 fir ft year, prune down clofe the fecond, and ftrong 

 wood may poilibly follow. 



With refpeel: to the foil that fuits every particular 

 kind of tree, there is fome variety of opinions. Gene- 

 rally fpeaking, a true loam fuits every thing. See 

 Formation of a Garden, Sett. 3. 



The following particulars feem to have a pretty 

 common confent. Vines love a rich dry foil, gravelly 

 or fandy, it it does not bind. Figs like much the fame 

 foil, though they need not fo rich a one: alhes are good 

 in the foil for figs. Apricots flourifh in a light loam; 

 but peaches and nectarines fhould have a fomewhat 

 ftrong loam, and the latter needs the warmer or richer 

 foil of the two. Pears like a ftrong but dry foil ; apples 

 a ftrong and a cool one, if it is not wet. Cherries^ 

 plums, walnuts, and mulberries, prefer a dry, fandy, 

 gravelly, or light foil, though they will grow in a 

 ftronger; plums do very well in a moift foil, and pro- 

 duce the larger fruit in it, but the flavour is inferior. 

 Quinces flourifh moft in a rich and moift foil, as by a 

 brook or river's fide, or where a rich wafh from finks, 

 or dunghills, runs occafionally about their roots : in a 

 dry foil their fruit is frnall, though higher flavoured : It 

 is an univerfal rule, that fruits are forwarder and •more 

 grateful in dry foils, but of lefs fize. 



Though the vine be planted in a right foil, yet it 

 will require to be fed and enlivened with fome fpiri- 

 tous manure, either in autumn or fpring. For this 

 purpofe water impregnated withfheep's dung and frefh 

 urine has been ufed. The K>p foil being removed, 

 bullocks, or which is beft, hogs blood, is fometirnes 

 F 4 applied; 



