258 of 'Bruit-Gardens. 



Branches,3nd thofe reduc'd to about fix Inches 

 above the Place of Grafting : A fingle Branch 

 is fufRcient for a Head 5 and this Pruning 

 may be done any Time before its beginning 

 to fhoot in the Spring. 



If your Tree be for the Wall, fer the Root 

 as far from the Foundation as the Top will 

 allow : By this Means the Root will have a 

 greater Liberty to fpread backward, and con- 

 fequently the Tree will thrive the better. 

 When the Tree is thus plac'd in the Ground, 

 with the Head fpreading againft the Wall, fill 

 the Hole with the Mould, wherein if the Tree 

 be young and tender, you are to take Care to 

 fill in the Soil gently, but for others lefsCare 

 will fuffice. And the laft Thing is the Securi- 

 ty of the Root from Frofts, which may be 

 done by laying half rotten Dung all round 

 the Tree, and upon that Fern or Straw five 

 or fix Inches thick, two or three Foot every 

 Way from the Body of the Tree : But to 

 keep the Roots cool and moift in the Summer, 

 a fmall Q:.iantity of Sand and Pebble-Stones 

 laid round, a little Diftancej will be moft ef- 

 fectual. - 



Where you fet Trees in Borders, in the 

 preparing of your Ground, it is a common 

 Praftice to make a Trench by the Wall-Side, 

 two Foot broad and the like Depth : For this 

 Trench you are to mingle good old Dung with 

 the Earth, and fill it up lightly near as 

 high as you intend the Borders to be, and then 

 you are to tread it down^ fo that it be not 



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