t2i MANAGEMENT OF ORCHARDS. 



by reafon of the lownefs of the trees, per^ 

 haps, and the humidity of the climate, ap- 

 pears as if hung with hoarfrcil ; owing to 

 the wh'te mojs which hangs in ribbons from 

 its boughs. The MiJIeto is not known to 

 this Diflricf!:, nor I beh'eve, to any part of 

 Devonshire or Cornwall. 



9. The APPLICATION OF THE LAND 



cf Orchards. Here lies the great objecftion 

 to the Devoniliire Orchard. The ufe of 

 the land is in a great meafure thrown away* 

 Horfes are fuffered to run through them, ifl 

 winter, and calves are kept in them, in 

 early fpring ; but grown cattle and (lieep 

 arc, at all times, prohibited from entering : 

 while fruit is on the trees, the very fwine 

 are carefully kept out of thein ^ even fmail 

 pigs ; left they ihould gather the fruit as it 

 hangs on the boughs ! which, in a bearing 

 year, bend to the ground, and perhaps reft 

 upon it ; while weeds, three or four feet 

 high, flioot up among them, and^ of courfe, 

 overfhadov/ the fruit. 



Previous to the gathering feafon, the 

 weeds are cut down with the fkhe, and 

 thrown to the roots of the trees ; that the 



fruit 



