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vantage of a free open Air, fb that 

 they cannot imbibe the kindly 

 Dews, or other aerial Particles of 

 Nourifhment, nor can they fo free- 

 ly expire or throw off any ot thofe 

 crude watery Particles which were 

 convey 'd through the Branches oi 

 the Tree to the Fruit, and we fhall 

 find chat it never arrives to half its 

 Bilagnitude, and is always tough, 

 watery and infipid, efpecially in 

 Teaches. This is much the fame 

 with his horizontal Shelters j for 

 the Rows of Tiles being plac'd in 

 every third Courfe of Bricks, will 

 effeflually keep off all Dews and 

 Rains from the Fruit, Leaves, and 

 Branches? both of which are by 

 every one ailow'd to be abfolutely 

 neceffary and ferviceable in the Buii- 

 Befs of Vegetation. 



As to his third Article (vi^i,) that 

 the Fruit will be much earlier ripe, 

 1 am very ready to fubfcribe to 

 k i for let us but oblerve fuch 

 Trees or Parts of Trees, as are in 

 a decaying State, and are not capa- 

 ble of affording proper Nourifh- 

 ment to the Fruit, and we fhall 

 always find thefe Fruits will be the 

 firft ripcj but how good they will 

 l»f, cither as to Size or Flavour, I 

 Jliall fubmit to every one's Judg- 

 ment that knows but the leaft of 

 this Mittcr. 



In his fourth Article he fays, 

 that Walls built with thefe Rows 

 of TiiC5, vvnll effedlually cure that 

 common Miftake of leading Wood- 

 Branches perpendicularly. This I 

 believe to be true, for a Wall built 

 in this Manner, and well planted 

 with Fruit-trees, will, in lefs than 

 feven Years, have no Wood-Branches 

 left alive to train either horizon- 

 tally or perpendicular 5 as I can 

 politively a.^rm w.is the Cafe, with 

 a Wall built after his Directions 

 within my ov/n Obfervation. 



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But let us now examine the 

 true Caufes of Blights, Co far as we 

 have been enabled to judge from 

 repeated Obfervations and Experi- 

 ments. 



I. Blights then are often caus'd 

 by a continu'd dry Eafterly Wind, 

 for feveral Days together, without 

 the Intervention of Showers, or 

 any Morning Dew, by which the {| 

 Perfpiration in the tender Bloffoms * 

 is ftopp'd, fo that in a fhort Time 

 their Colour is changed, and they 

 wither and decay : And if it fo 

 happens that there is a long Con- 

 tinuance of the fame Weather, it 

 equally affe6ts the tender Leaves, 

 for their perfpirmg Matter is here- 

 by thickned, and render 'd gluti- 

 nous, clofely adhering to the Sur- 

 faces of the Leaves, and becomes a 

 proper Nutriment to thofe fmall 

 Infefts which are always found 

 preying upon the Leaves and ten- 

 der Branches of Fruit-trees, when- 

 ever this Blight happens ; but it is 

 not thefe Infefts which are the 

 firft Caufe of Blights, as hath been 

 imagin'd by fbme ; tho' it muft be 

 allowed, that whenever thefe In- 

 fers meet with fuch a proper 

 Food, they multiply exceedingly, 

 and are inftrumental in promoting 

 the Diftemperi fo that many times 

 when the Seafon proves favourable 

 to them, and no proper Care hath 

 been taken to prevent their Mif- 

 chief, it is furprizing to think how 

 whole Walls of Trees have fuffered 

 by this Infedicn. 



' The befl Remedy for this Di- 

 ftemper, that I have yet known 

 fucceed, is, gently to waili and 

 Iprinkle over the Trees from time 

 to time with common Water (that 

 is, fuch as hath not had any Thing 

 fteep'd in it) and the iooner this is 

 pertbrm'd (whenever we appre- 

 hend Danger) the better, and if 



