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Shoots, or disburdening their Trees 

 of luxuriant Branches, by which 

 means, two, three, or four Shoots 

 fliall exhauft the greateft Part of 

 the Nourilhment of the Trees all 

 the Summer, which Shoots, at the 

 Winter Pruning, are intirely cut 

 out, fo that the Strength of the 

 Tree was employed only in nou- 

 riihing ufelefs Branches, while the 

 Fruit Branches are thereby ren- 

 der'd fo weak, as not to be able to 

 preferve themfelves ; The Remedies 

 to this Evil ihall be explain'd in 

 the Article ot Fruning Teach Trees, 

 tec. 



But if the Weaknefs of the Tree 

 proceeds from an inbred Diftem- 

 per, it is the better way to remove 

 the Tree at nrft, and after renew- 

 ing your Earth, plant a new one 

 in its Place. 



Or if your Soil is a hot burning 

 Giavel or Sand, in which your 

 Peach Trees are planted j you'll 

 generally find this will be their 

 Cafe after their Roots have gotten 

 beyond the Earth of your Borders, 

 for which Rcafbn it is much more 

 advifeable to dig them up, and 

 plant Grapes, Figs, Apricots, or 

 any other Sort of Fruit which may 

 do well in fuch a Soil, than to be 

 annually difappointed of your Hopes : 

 For by a Variety of Experiments, 

 it hath been found, that Apricots 

 do attract and imbibe Moillure 

 with a much greater Force than 

 Teaches and Ne5iarines, and fo con- 

 iequcntly are more capable to affi- 

 milate their nutritive Particles from 

 the Earth, than the other can do, 

 which require to be planted in a 

 generous Soil, which can afford 

 them a Sufficiency of Nouriflimcnt 

 -without much Difficulty : And it 

 is in fuch Places we often fee 

 Peaches do Wonders, efpecially if 

 afllfted by Art j but as for the Vine 



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and Fig-tree, they perfpire but very 

 flowly, and are very often in an 

 imbibing State (fo that a great Part 

 of that fine racy Flavour, with 

 which their Fruits abound when 

 planted in a dry Soil, is probably 

 owing to thofe refined aerial Prin- 

 ciples which are colledled when in 

 a State of Reipiration) 5 and there- 

 fore, as thefe Trees do not delight 

 in drawing much watry Nourilh- 

 ment from the Earth, fo they will 

 much better fucceed in fuch a Soil 

 than in one that is more generous ; 

 we {hould therefore always endea- 

 vour to fuit the particular Sorts of 

 Fruits to the Nature of our Soil, 

 and not pretend to have all Sorts 

 of Fruit good in the fame Soil. 



But there is another Sort of 

 Blight, againfl: which it is very 

 difficult to guard our • Fruit-trees j 

 this is fharp pinching frofty Morn- 

 ings, which often happen at the 

 Time when the Trees are in flower, 

 or while the Fruit is very young, 

 and occafion the Bloflbms or Fruit 

 to drop off, and fometimes the 

 tender Parts of the Shoots and 

 Leaves are greatly injur'd there- 

 by. 



The only Method yet found out 

 to prevent this Mifchief is, by 

 carefully covering the Walls, either 

 with Mats, Canvas, O'C. which 

 being fattened fo as not to be dif^ 

 turb'd with the Wind, and fuffered 

 to remain on during the Night, by 

 taking them off every Day, if the 

 Weather permits, is the beft and 

 fureft Method that hath yet been 

 ufed in this Cafe \ which altho' it 

 has been flighted and thought of 

 little Service by fome, yet the 

 • Reafon of their being not fo fer- 

 viceable as has been expected, was, 

 becaufe they have not been rightly 

 ufed, by futfering the Trees to re- 

 main too long covered, by which 

 Means 



