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want ot" skill, or elk- fuch arrnes or branches as arc broken off clofe, or fliued troin the 

 body of the tree: tor the raine beating and tailing into Inch a place, will in Ihort time 

 rotte your tree, or put it in danger, Ix-lido the deformity. Some vfe to fill vp fuch an 

 hole \vith well tempered clay, and tacke a cloth or a peccc of leather ouer it vntill it be 

 rccouered, and this i- all'o not amille. Your young trees, if they Hand in anie good 

 ground, will bee plentiful! enough in (hooting forth branches; bee carefull theretore 

 if they growe too thicke, that you pruine away fuch as growe too clofe (and will, it 

 thev he fullered, fpoile one another) as they may be bell fpared, that fo the funne, ayrc, 

 and raine may haue free accede to all your branches, which will make them beare the 

 more plentifully, and ripen them the fooner and the more kindly. If anie boughes 

 growe at the toppe too high, cut them alfo away, that your trees may rather fpread 

 then growe too high. And fo likewife for the vnder boughes, or anie other that by 

 the weight of fruit fall or hang downe, cut them off at the halfe, and they will after- 

 wards rile and (hoote vpwards. You lhall obferue, that at all thofe places where anie 

 branches haue been cut away, the fappe will euer bee readie to put torth : if therefore 

 you would haue no more branches rife from that place, rubbe off or nippe off fuch 

 buddes as are not to your minde when they are new (hot : and thus you may keep your 

 trees in good order with a little paines, after you haue thus pruined and dreffed them. 

 One other thing I would aduertife you of, and that is how to preferue a fainting or de- 

 mg tree which is readie to perifh, if it be not gone too farre or part cure, take a good 

 quantitie of oxe or horfe bloud, mixe therewith a reafonable quantitie of Iheepe or pi- 

 geons dung, which being laid to the roote, will by the often raines and much watering 

 recouer it felfe, if there bee anie poffibilitie ; but this mull bee done in lanuarie or Fe- 

 bruarie at the lurthelt. 



CHAP. VIII. 



Diners other obferuations to be remembred in the well 

 keeping of an Orchard. 



THere be diuers o^her things to be mentioned, whereof care muft be had, either 

 to doe or auoide, which I thinke fit in this Chapter promifcuoufly to fet down, 

 that there may be nothing wanting to furnifh you with fufficient knowledge of 

 the care, paines, and cafualties that befall an Orchard : for it hath many enemies, and 

 euery one laboureth as much as in them lye, to fpoile you of your pleafure, or profit, or 

 both, which mull bee both fpeedily and caretully preuented and helped; and they are 

 thefe : Molfe, Caterpillars, Ants, Earwigs, Snailes, Moales, and Birds. If Mofle begin 

 to ouergrowe your trees, looke to it betimes, left it make your trees barren : Some vfe to 

 hacke, and eroflehacke, or cut the barke of the bodies ot their trees, to caufe it tall away ; 

 but I feare it may endanger your trees. Others do either rubbe it off with a haire cloth, 

 or with a long peece of wood formed like a knife, at the end of a long llicke or pole, 

 which if it bee vfed cauteioufly without hurting the buds, I like better. Caterpillars, 

 fome fmoake them with burning wet tlrawe or hay, or fuch like (luffe vnder the trees; 

 but I doe not greatly like of that way : others cut off the boughes whereon they breed, 

 and tread them vnder their feete, but that will fpoile too manie branches; and fome 

 kill them with their hands: but fome doe vfe a new deuifed way, that is, a pompe made 

 of lattin or tin, fpout-fafhion, which being fet in a tubbe of water vnder or neare your 

 trees, they will caufe the water to rife through it with fuch a force, and through the 

 branches, that it will walh them off quickly. To dellroy Ants that eate your fruit be- 

 fore and when it is ripe, fome vfe to annoint the bodies of their trees with tarre, that 

 they may not creepe vp on the branches; but if that doe not helpe, or you will not vfe 

 it, you mult be carefull to finde out their hill, and turne it vp, pouring in fcalding wa- 

 ter, either in Summer, but efpecially if you can in Winter, and that will furely deltroy 

 them. I haue fpoken of Earwigs in the firlt part of this worke, entreating of the annoy- 

 ances of Gillorlowers, and therefore I referre you thereunto : yet one way more I 



will 



