THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



over, (which is at true mid-summer), and take out 

 some great boughs then, if you minde your time, 

 and do it with discretion, you may force that tree 

 to put furth blowing buds, and blow and bear the 

 year following, as I shall informe you in the next 

 sections. But, 



One main business is to inclose your plantations ; 

 avoid planting too deep, too dry, too cold, or too 

 moist, and guard your orchards from winds, by 

 planting two rowes of f orrest-trees at least round 

 without the wall, the breadth of a large walk, or 

 rather fifty feet therefrom, with thickets of the same 

 on the west, north and east, but especially on the 

 west (yet mind regularity). Also observe my me- 

 thode of planting and pruning, and ordering their 

 bulks of six and eight foot diameter. But when the 

 trees grow old, and their feeding roots f arr abroad, 

 you cannot reach to feed them with manures in this 

 narrow compass; therefore enlarge it, or other- 

 wayes confine them a little sooner, and hinder their 

 too f arr gauding, by digging a circle round the tree, 

 perhaps eight foot diameter, and cut all the roots 

 clean off there that hath not run out, applying fresh 

 and sweet mould, so shall they emit fibres or feed- 

 ing roots in thicket, which may be supplied with 



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