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the clay, and worked over until it is well 

 mixed ; in which pears will thrive and 

 produce moft excellent fruit. The mould 

 for planting in this ftifF border is, one 

 barrow from the border, one of rotten 

 dung, and two of wood earth : this will 

 be fit for the trees to flrike root in, after 

 which they will grow very well. 



No kind of pears mould have lefs room 

 than twenty feet, and many of the more 

 vigorous forts mould have twenty-four 

 or thirty feet diftance at leafr. ; for when 

 they have little room they grow fo full of 

 young wood and require fo much cutting r 

 that they never bear well. 



THE comport for planting with (except 

 the clay border) is, two barrows of the 

 prepared mould, one of rotten horfe-dung, 

 and one of light rich mould ; put one 

 barrow of it to a hole. 



PEARS are a fine fruit and lafling, if 



brought to perfection.. There are many of 



3 the 



