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being one good fpade deep of fertile 

 mold ; but if two or three fpades deep, 

 the greater the advantage. In a loamy 

 foil, not too ftrong and clayey, moft 

 fruits are profperous \ but a moderately- 

 light fandy loam, of a pliable texture, 

 free and eafy to work at all feafons, 

 makes a defirable foil. The ftrongeft 

 loams, however, may be meliorated 

 with good dung, coal afhes, fandy earth, 

 and other light opening fubftances. In 

 gardens, not naturally of a loamy foil, 

 we fometimes, from a pafture, common, 

 or field, procure a fufficiency to prepare 

 the borders intended for wall trees, ei- 

 ther wholly, or parr, working it with 

 ftore of dung, and a portion of the na- 

 tural foil of the borders, one or two 

 fpades deep. But any good earth of 

 a blackifh, hazelly, or brown colour, 

 X x 2 mo- 



