Chap. I. Of Roots mid Leaves. 5 



ing perpendicularly, and mounting again in the fame 

 manner : As I have obferv'd the Roots of a Hedge 

 to do, that have pafs'd a fteep Ditch two Feet deep, 

 and reach'd the Mould on the other fide, and there 

 fill it -, and digging Five Feet diflant from the Ditch, 

 found the Roots large, tho' this Mould was very 

 fhallow, and no Roots below the good Mould. 



So in an Orchard, where the Trees are planted 

 too deep, below the Staple or good Mould, the 

 Roots, at a little Diftance from the Stem, are all as 

 near the upper Superficies of the Ground, as of thofe 

 Trees, which are planted higher than the Level of 

 the Earth's Surface. 



But the Damage of planting a Tree too low in 

 moid Ground is, that in pafling thro' this low Part, 

 {landing in Water, the Sap is chill'd, and its Circu- 

 lation thereby retarded. 



One Caufe of Peoples not fufpecting Roots to 

 extend to the Twentieth Part of the Diftance which 

 in reality they do, was from obferving theie Horizon- 

 tal-Roots, near the Plant, to be pretty taper ; and if 

 they did diminifh on, in proportion to what they do 



Witch-Elm is a very old decay'd Stump, which is here called a 

 Staggar, appearing by its Crookednefs to have been formerly a 

 flajber in an old White-thorn Hedge wherein it ftands; It had 

 been lopped many Years before that accidental Increafe of Roots 

 happened ; it was Hunted, and fent out poor Shoots ; but in the 

 third Year of thefe Roots, its Boughs being moil of them hori- 

 zontally inclined, were obferved to grow vigoroufly, and the 

 Leaves were broad, and of a flourifhing Colour ; at the End of 

 the third Year all thefe Roots were taken away, and the Area 

 being a Chalk-Rock lying uncovered, round thePlace where the 

 Single Root, that produced all thefe, came out of the Bank, no 

 more Roots could run out on the bare Chalk, and the Growth 

 of the Boughs has been but little fmce, 



Whsat, driil'd in double Rows in November, in a Field well 

 till'd before Planting, look'd yellow, when about Eighteen 

 Inches high ; at Two Feet Diftance from the Plants, the Earth 

 was Ho-plow'd, which gave fuch Nourimment to 'em, that they 

 recover'd their Health, and changed their fickly Yellow, to a 

 lively Green Colour. 



B 3 there, 



