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should be too wet, it sliould, if possible, 

 be drained, and if not, hillocks should 

 be thrown up, and the trees planted high 

 on them in proportion to the wetness of 

 the soil; and this may be done by remov- 

 ing some af the surrounding soil, or by 

 bringing earth from another place. The 

 scovvering of ditches, and, in general, the 

 scraping of roads, is good, and in parti- 

 cular for mixing in such places where 

 the land is very stiff. The trees should 

 be planted in the centre of each place so 



old work translated from the French, entitled Mai- 

 son Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, and which 

 was newly corrected and augmented by Gervase 

 Markham in 1616 ; as it contains more on this sub- 

 ject than any thing I have seen of a later date, I 

 shall make a few extracts from it, as they may 

 occur, mostly for the purpose of shewing the 

 growers of fruit, the pains our forefathers took 

 with their trees. Were Mr. Gervase Markham 

 alive, and to ride through the cyder counties of 

 Great Britain in the summer season, I think he 

 would either go mad, or suppose himself to be the 

 only sane man who had any interest in this subject 

 in this country. Neither should I be more sur- 

 prised, if, in the aphis lanata, he recognized an old 

 acquaintance, although each of them had taken a 

 long 7iap in the mean time. 



