(4*29 H.A.). The trees there never again produced fruit as 

 before, and died one after another. 



Thus the advantages presented by the uplands are: first 

 of all, the presence at all times of s\yeet-water ; secondly, the 

 nonprevalence in those altitudes of the injurious, chilly night- 

 winds; thirdly, the impossibility of the earth there absorbing 

 briny water by suction; and fourthly, that in those parts 

 the ground does not increase so quickly, by which the digging 

 out need not be repeated so often. 



In soured land i. e., where by some cause or other the 

 water has become stagnant - - the condition of the trees is 

 improved by digging up the ground at a distance of 1 8 decim. 

 round the stem, strewing in it a pound of ordinary mortar 

 or three table-spoonfulls of sugar-lime, and closing up the 

 opening with mould. This produces an ordinary chemical 

 process, the lime absorbing the acid and being afterwards 

 dissolved. If in digging this circle a bit of root is in the way, 

 great care must be taken not to injure it, but rather to make 

 a little deviation and circumvent it. 



