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SECT, vm. OF PLANTING. 



strong but dry soil ; appks a strong and a cool one, 

 if it is not wet. Cherries, plums, walnuts, and mul- 

 berries, prefer a dry, sandy, gravelly, or light soil, 

 though they will grow in a stronger ; plums do very 

 well in a moist soil, and produce the larger fruit in 

 it, but the flavour is inferior. Quinces flourish most 

 in a rich and moist soil, as by a brook or river's 

 side, or where a rich wash from sinks, or dunghills, 

 runs occasionally about their roots : in a dry soil 

 their fruit is small, though higher flavoured : It is 

 an universal rule, that fruits are forwarder and more 

 grateful in dry soils, but of less size. 



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

 will require to be fed and enlivened with some spiri- 

 tous manure, either in autumn or spring. For this 

 purpose water impregnated with sheep's dung and 

 fresh urine has been used. The top soil being re- 

 moved, bullocks, or which is best, hog's blood, is 

 sometimes applied; or it may be let in by making 

 holes with a smooth sharp-pointed stake, not too 

 near the stem. A little sheep's dung, or that of poul- 

 try, dug in regularly every autumn, is a good, neat, 

 standing rule. 



4. The SITUATION properest for planting any 

 particular kind of tree is to be considered ; for some 

 like a low, some a high, some a moist, some a dry 

 situation ; but it is spoken here chiefly of fruit trees. 

 Particularly observe that pears graffed on quince 

 stocks, must have a moist soil, or they will not do 

 well. 



The general situation of a country will in a mea- 

 sure rule ; for though England be- but an island it 

 Jjas many climates in- it, and certain plants will do 

 better in one place than another, (even within the 

 space of a few miles) as to effects from weather. 

 The difference between hill and valley in the same 

 place, is something, so that in the latter the tender 

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