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is the beft, or the firft planted. All 

 plantation son good land mould be planted 

 thick, and managed in this manner, and 

 if they were would be fine trees. But 

 there are many plantations on good land, 

 and planted thick, that are never pruned, 

 nor a tree removed, which are now mere 

 thickets of fmall and unfightly trees. 



CHAP. XII. 



Of Pruning Fruit-'Trees. 



IN my treatife on gardening, I gave par- 

 cular directions for making Kitchen- 

 gardens in fuch a manner, that neither 

 the roots of the wall-trees, nor thofe 

 planted round v the quarters, for dwarfs or 

 efpaliers, can meet with any obstructions 

 to canker and impede their growth. The 

 method in practice, is to mark out the 

 walks in kitchen-gardens, and to remove 

 all the good earth, and make them the com- 

 mon receptacles'for all manjier of rubbifh 

 during the making of the whole garden. 



