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above half full in the Places you defign to fet 

 the Trees. But where the Soil is defeftive in 

 the Bottom, or a young Tree is planted in 

 the fame Place and Soil where an old one has 

 been, you nauft prepare your Ground with 

 Comport as far as the Koots of the young 

 Tree need to go, or the old ones has grown : 

 And it is very prudential to fet the Trees 

 ihallow, and raife the Earth about them, 

 tho* in a warm dry Soil a little Elevation will 

 ferve^ but in a wet Clay you cannot ordina- 

 rily plant too high 5 and altho* fome of the 

 bigger Roots (hould afterwards appear above 

 the Surface of the Earth, they will do 

 very well, if you in the Beginning cover 

 the Roots with the beft fine Mould, (and 

 herein you are to allow for the Settling of 

 the new^ Earth, which ufually finks three or 

 four Inches) and preferve them moift for one 

 Year againft the fcorching Heats of the Sun. 



Thefe are the moft ufeful Obfervations 

 relating to planting of Fruit-Trees ^ and as 

 they chiefly concern Wall-Fruit, before i 

 conclude this Head, I fhall communicate a 

 few Obfervations relating to the building of 

 Fruit-Walls. 



Of all Materials proper for building of 

 Fruit-Walls, Brick is certainly the beft, it 

 being not only the handfomeft, bat the warm- 

 eft and kindeft for ripening of Fruit, befides 

 the moft convenient for Nailing 5 for fmall 



