Tkt orefcriHg of the Orrfw 



tlut -.Mint, ihat where cucry tret- ilumld hce let, you oncly diggr th.it place 



to make it good : but YOU mull know, tint the rootes of trees runnc further alter 

 a little times (landing, then the tint compalle they .ire let in ; and thei\ little 



ground can mainlaine them but .1 little while, and th.it when the r. 

 are runne beyond that mull compalVe wherein tlu\ \\ , --.e tint let, and that they are 

 come to the barren or bad ground, they can thriue no better then it' they had ': 

 in that ground at the tirll, and it YOU ihould afterwards digge beyond that com. 

 intending to make the ground better turthc. oft". \ou ihould much hurt the fpreading 

 rootes, and put vour trees in danger : the lituation of hils in many places is grandly 

 or chalky, which is not good for trees, becaufe they are both too rtonie, and lacke 

 mellow earth, wherein * tree doth molt ioy and profper, and want moithire a ho 

 (which is the lite of" all trees) becaufe of the quicke defcent of raine to the K 

 grounds; and betides all thefe inconueniences there is one more; your trees planted 

 either on bib or hill tides, are more fubiect to die fury and force of windes to be ouer- 

 turned, then thofe that growe in the lower grounds; for the tlrongeft and molt :. 

 We windes come not tfiully out of die North Eall parts, where you prouide belt de- 

 tenoe. hut from the Southland Welt, whence you looke for the betl comfort of the 

 Sunne. To helpe therefore manie of the inconueniences of the hils tides, it we- 

 to caufe manie leauels to bee made thereon, by raiting the lower grounds with . 

 earth, and fuftaining them with bricke or (lone wals, which although chargeable. \\ ill 

 c\Hinteruaile your coll betide the plcafure of the walkes, and pro! pec: ot' ;o worthy 

 a worke. The plaine or leuell grounds as they are die moil frequent, fo they are the 

 moll commendable tor an Orchard, becaufe the moulds or earths are more rk 

 may better and fooner be made fo; and therefore die profits are die more may K 

 fed trom diem. A ttitife clay dodi nourith trees well, by reafon it contained) moi- 

 thire; but in regard of die coJdnetfe diereof, it killedi for die moft part all tender and 

 early diings dierein : fea-cok alhes dicretore, bucke alhes, ftreete foyfe, chaulke arter 

 it hadi lyen abroad and been broken with many yeares frotb and nine, and iheepes 

 dung, are die moll proper and Httdl manure to helpe diis kinde of foyle. The 

 fandy foile, and grauelly ground are on die contrary fide as bad, by reafon of too much 

 heate and lacke of moithire : die dung of kine or cartel! in good quant, 

 thereon, will much helpe diem. The amending or bettering of other for: .mds 



is I'et down toward d end of die firft Chapter of die firft part of this \\\ ere- 



vnto I will reterre you, not willing to repeate againe die ftme diings there i"et downe. 

 The belt way to auoide and amend die inconueniences of high, boiAcrous, and 

 windes, is to 'plant Walnut trees, Klmes, Oakes or Afhes, a good diftance without the 

 compare of your Orchard, which after diey are growne great, will bee a great 

 guard diereunto, by breaking die violence of die windes from it And if the 

 your Orchard want moithire, die conueying of die tinke of die houle, as alto am 0- 

 tner draine of water thereinto, if it may be, will much helpe it. 



CHAP. II. 



gntct tatJ nurity* 



yy Ccording t\-> die titmtivxn of men grounds, fo mull the plantation of die.:- 

 /\ neoeilitie be aho ; and if die ground V in forme, you thall haue a formall 

 * *tiard: if odienvife, it can haue little grace or forme. And indeed in die elder 

 ages their was nmll care or heexie taken tor the formality : for euery tree tor the moll 

 Pt was planted witrnnit order, eiien where the mailer oV keeper found a vacant place 

 to pbnt diem in, fo dut v>ttentinies the ill placing of trees without mtrtciem fjpace he- 

 . ^e rfienv and negligeiKr in ixx Kx>king to vphokl diem, procured more watle and 

 tpoile of tiruii, dien any aocidc xle or weadier ; oe. Orchards in nxill 



places h*ue not hricke or tlone wals u^ fecxire diem, becaufe die extent diereof being 



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