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APPLES on crab-flocks will laft many 

 years, and bear good fruit. An in fiance 

 of this I faw in the ruins of a, monaftery 

 which had been in the fame family ever 

 fince its difTolution, and by tradition the 

 fame trees that were in the place when 

 it firil came into their hands fome hundred 

 years ago. 



THE trees were much decayedybut what 

 were alive of them bore fair round fruit, 

 equal except as to fize to any tree of ten 

 years old. The whole orchard was paved 

 with bricks; the foil twenty inches deep, a^ 

 fine rich loam. There was a plantation of 

 pear-trees about thirty years old ; which 

 had covered the wall fome years, and 

 produced great quantities of fine fruit ; 

 at laft they began to canker, and the fruit 

 to pit : they became every year worfe. 

 But the following experiment brought 

 them to flourifh again : 



THE ground was opened all round the 

 bole of the tree at three feet difhnce ; the 



roots 



