ordering of the Orchard. 





will here relate which fome doe vfe, and that is with hollow canes of halfe a yard 

 long or more, open at both ends for them to creepe in, and ftucke or laid among the 

 branches of your trees, will foone drawe into them many Earwigs, which you may 

 foone kill, by knocking the cane a little vpon the ground, and treading on them with 

 your foote. Snailes mufl be taken with your hands, and that euerie day, efpecially in 

 the morning when they will be creeping abroad. Moales by running vnder your trees 

 make them lefle fruitfull, and alfo put them in danger to be blowne downe, by leauing 

 the ground hollow, that thereby the rootes haue not that ftrength in the ground, both 

 to fhoote and to hold, that otherwife they might haue. Some haue vfed to put Gar- 

 licke, and other fuch like things into their holes, thinking thereby to driue them away, 

 but to no purpofe : others haue tryed manie other waies ; but no way doth auaile anie 

 thing, but killing them either with a Moale fpade, or a trappe made for the purpofe as 

 manie doe know : and they muft bee watched at their principall hill, and trenched 

 round, and fo to be caught. Birds are another enemie both to your trees and fruit ; 

 for the Bullfinch will deftroy all your ftone fruit in the budde, before they flower, if 

 you fuffer them, and Crowes, &c. when your Cherries are ripe : for the fmaller birds, 

 Lime twigs fet either neare your trees, or at the next water where they drinke, will 

 helpe to catch them and deftroy them. And for the greater birds, a ftone bowe, a 

 birding or fowling peece will helpe to leflen their number, and make the reft more 

 quiet : or a mill with a clacke to fcarre them away, vntill your fruit be gathered. Some 

 other annoyances there are, as fuckers that rife from the rootes of your trees, which 

 muft be taken away euerie yeare, and not fufFered to growe anie thing great, for feare 

 of robbing your trees of their liuelihood. Barke bound, is when a tree doth not fhoote 

 and increafe, by reafon the barke is as it were drie, and will not fuffer the fappe to 

 pafle vnto the branches : take a knife therefore, and flit the barke downe almoft 

 all the length of the tree in two or three places, and it will remedy that euill, and 

 the tree will thriue and come forward the better after. Barke pilled is another euill 

 that happeneth to fome trees, as well young as old, either by reafon of cafuall hurts, 

 or by the gnawing of beafts, howfoeuer it bee, if it bee anie great hurt, lay a plai- 

 fter thereon made of tallow, tarre, and a little pitch, and binde it thereto, letting it 

 fo abide vntill the wound bee healed : yet fome doe only apply a little clay or loame 

 bound on with ropes of hay. The Canker is a fhrewd difeafe when it happeneth to a 

 tree ; for it will eate the barke round, and fo kill the very heart in a little fpace. It muft 

 be looked vnto in time before it hath runne too farre ; moft men doe wholly cut away 

 as much as is fretted with the Canker, and then drefle it, or wet it with vinegar or 

 Cowes pifle, or Cowes dung and vrine, &c. vntill it be deftroyed, and after healed 

 againe with your falue before appointed. There are yet fome other enemies to an Or- 

 chard : for if your fence be not of bricke or ftone, but either a mudde wall, or a quicke 

 fet or dead hedge, then looke to it the more carefully, and preuent the comming in of 

 either horfe, or kine, fheepe, goates, or deere, hare, or conie ; for fome of them will 

 breake through or ouer to barke your trees, and the leart hole almoft in the hedge will 

 giue admittance to hares and conies to doe the like. To preuent all which, your care 

 muft be continuall to watch them or auoide them, and to ftoppe vp their entrance. A 

 dogge is a good feruant for many fuch purpofes, and fo is a ftone bowe, and a peece to 

 make vfe of as occafion mall ferue. But if you will take that medicine for a Canker 

 fpoken of before, which is Cowes dung and vrine mixed together, and with a brum 

 warn your trees often to a reafonable height, will keepe hares and conies from eating 

 or barking your trees. Great and cold windes doe often make a great fpoile in an Or- 

 chard, but great trees planted without the compafle thereof, as Wall-nuts, Oakes, 

 Elmes, Afhes, and the like, will ftand it in great ftead, to defend it both early and late. 

 Thus haue I {hewed you moft of the euils that may happen to an Orchard, and the 

 meanes to helpe them, and becaufe the number is great and daily growing, the care 

 and paines muft be continuall, the more earneft and diligent, left you lofe that in a 

 moment that hath been growing many yeares, or at the leaft the profit or beauty of 

 fome yeares fruit. 



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