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for if there is not room to lay in young 

 wood, there will be very little fruit. The 

 compoiition for planting thefe trees is 

 two barrows of fine light mould, one of 

 rotten horfe-dung, and one of rotten wood 

 earth. It mould be obferved that in the 

 directions for planting mould, the quan- 

 tities muft be proportioned to the fize of 

 the plantation. 



THE proper foil for an orchard is. a fine 

 light loam, they will grow and bear fruit 

 in all good earth that is twenty inches 

 deep, and a dry bottom. 



CLAY, fand, or gravel are very unfit to 

 plant fruit-trees in ; for though the ground 

 be well prepared before planting, they foon 

 decay. 



WALNUTS, if planted for fruit, mould 

 have a good, light, rich, deep foil. The 

 trees raifed in the nurfery, that have been 

 removed at leaft three times, are the pro- 

 pereft ; the top-root being deftroyed, the 



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