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you fhould obftrve to place the 

 largeft growing Trees backward, 

 and fo proceed to thofe of lefs 

 Growth, continuing the fame Me- 

 thod quite through the whole Plan- 

 tation i wherjpby it will appear at 

 a Di fiance in a regular Slope, and 

 the Sun and Air will more equally 

 pafs throughout the whole Orchardy 

 that every Tree may have an equal 

 Benefit therefrom. 



The Soil of your Orchard fliould 

 alfo be mended once in two or 

 three Years with Dung, or other 

 Manure, which will alio be abfb- 

 lutely neceflary for the Crops ibwn 

 between: So that where Perfons 

 are not inclinable to help their Or- 

 chardst where the Expence of Ma- 

 nure is pretty great j yet as there is 

 a Crop expefted from the Ground 

 belides the Fruit, they will the 

 more readily be at the Charge up- 

 on that Account. 



In making choice of Trees for 

 an Orchard) you flioald always ob- 

 ferve to procure them from a Soil 

 nearly akin to that v\?^hcre they are 

 to be planted, or rather poorer, for 

 if you have them from a very rich 

 Soil, and that wherein you plant 

 them is but mdifferenr, they will 

 not thrive well, efpecially for four 

 or five Years after planting: So 

 that 'tis a very wrong Practice to 

 make the Nuriery, where young 

 Trees are rais'd, very rich, when 

 the Trees are defign'd for a mid' 

 dling or poor Soil. The Trees 

 fhould alio be young and thriving ^ 

 for whatever fome Perfons may ad- 

 vife to the contrary, yet it has al- 

 ways been obferv'd, that tho' large 

 Trees may grow and produce Fruit 

 after being remov'd, they never 

 make fo good Trees, nor are fo 

 iong-liv'd, as thofe v/hich are plant- 

 ed while young. 



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Thefc Trees, after they are plant- 

 ed our, will require no other pru- 

 ning but only to cut out dead 

 Branches', or fuch as crofs each 

 other fo as to render their Heads 

 confus'd and unfightly: The too 

 often pruning them, or Ihortening 

 their Branches, is very injurious, 

 efpecially to Cherries and Stone- 

 Fruit, which will gum prodigi- 

 oufly, and decay in fuch Places 

 where they are cut : And the Ap* 

 pies and Pears which are not of lb 

 nice a Nature, will produce a grea- 

 ter Quantity of lateral Branches, 

 which will fill the Heads of the 

 Trees with weak Shoots whenever 

 their Branches are thus Ihorten'd; 

 and many times the Fruit is here- 

 by cut off, which, on many Sorts 

 of Fruit-Trees, is firft produc'd at 

 the Extremity of their Shoots. 



It may perhaps feem ftrange to 

 fome Peribns, that I fnould recom- 

 mend the allowing lb much Di- 

 ftance to the Trees in an Orchard, 

 becaufe a fmall Piece of Ground 

 will admit of very few Trees v/hcn 

 planted in this Method : But they'll 

 pleafe to obferve, that when the 

 Trees are grown up, they will 

 produce a great deal more Fruit, 

 than twice the Number when 

 planted clofe, and will be vaftly 

 better tafled 5 the Trees, when pla- 

 ced at a large Diftance, being ne- 

 ver lb much in Danger of Blight- 

 ing as in dole Plantations, as hath 

 been obferv'd in HerefordJInre, the 

 great County for Orchards, where 

 they find that Orchards fo planted, 

 or fo iituated, as that the Air is 

 pent up amongft the Trees, the 

 Vapours which arife from the 

 Damp of the Ground, and the Per- 

 fpiration of the Trees, colle6l the 

 Heat of the Sun, and refiecl it in 

 Streams fo as to caufe what they 



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