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five yards and a half, may be taken as thq 

 ordinary dijlance between the plants ! Some 

 I 'have meafured at not more than four jards 

 apart : fome few at fix yards. 



The moft approved mode of planting is to 

 remove the foil down to the rock, which 

 feldom lies very deep, and to cover this, 

 eight or ten inches thick, with a compofl 

 of frejli earth and fea fand. Upon this 

 compofl, in ordinary cafes, the inverted turf 

 is laid J and upon this the young tree is 

 fet ; and its roots bedded in the beft of the 

 excavated mold; finally covering them 

 with the ordinary earth raifed in making 

 the pit. A method which is altogether 

 judicious. 



The ufual guard zxq faggots of brambles, 

 brufliwood, or furze ; letting them remain 

 to rot at the foot of the tree. No flakes, I 

 believe, are ufed. Indeed, the plants are 

 generally io low as not to require them : 

 efpecialiy in filling up old Orchards ; as the 

 pld trees fhelter the young ones from the 

 wijid. And the planting of new Orchards 

 does not appear to be, at prefent, much in 



prad:ice. 



