BOOK OF FRUITS. 



ROOT. MANURES. 



THE root being the commencement and 

 foundation of Trees, its office is to collect and 

 apply the food which forms and determines its 

 growth ; hence if the roots grow luxuriantly, 

 the branches will also, and the reverse. "It 

 often happens," says Miller, " that the roots of 

 trees are buried too deep in the ground, which 

 in a cold or moist soil is one of the greatest dis- 

 advantages that can attend Fruits ; for the 

 sap in the branches being by the warmth of 

 the air put strongly into motion early in the 

 spring, is exhausted in nourishing the blos- 

 soms, and a part of it is perspked through the 

 wood branches, so that its strength is lost be- 

 fore the warmth can reach the shoots to put 

 them into an equal motion in search of fresh 

 nourishment, to supply the expenses of the 

 branches, for want of which the blossoms fall 



