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loam ; and to every four loads .of loam add 

 one of rotten dung. If the natural full is 

 gravelly, add one half ftrong loam, and to 

 every three loads of loam one of rotten 

 clung, and one of rotten wood earth, if it 

 can be got. The compofition ihould 

 be laid on the border and trenched over 

 three or four times that it may be well 

 mixed ; the laft time mould be three 

 weeks before the planting feafon, that the 

 mould may be well fettled before the t: 

 are planted. 



THE apricot is naturally inclined to 

 -moot ftrong vigorous wood, efpecially 

 when the border is rich ; dung is perni- 

 cious to all trees (vines excepted) but 

 none fuffer fo much from it as apricots, 

 for it makes them gum and canker. 



APRICOTS mould have more room than is 

 generally allowed them ; the Turkey kind 

 ihould never have lefs than thirty feet, al-. 

 though the wall is twelve feet high, and; 

 the other forts from twenty to tv/cuty- 

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