FRUIT-TREES. 15 



otherwife have bloffomed the next fpring j 

 and the lower parts of the branches have 

 very long jomts, and but few buds j and 

 thofe there are of a fhape too flat for 

 bloflbming. 



But when trees grow in a dry foil (mixt 

 as before direfted) their young branches 

 will be found healthy at their upper ends, 

 with fuch buds as are of a fort fit for 

 bloflbming 5 and the lower parts will be 

 able to convey fap from the roots to fup- 

 port them. 



The quantity of lime, afhes, foot, &c. 

 muft not be greater than what I have men- 

 tioned ; for as they are ferviceable to ve- 

 getables when uled in a proper quantity, 

 fo are they likewife deftruclive when ufed 

 in too large a quantity, or when they are 

 not well mixt with moift earth to dilute 

 their falts, and bring them to a fit texture 

 for the roots of trees to receive, without 

 cutting or renting their pores, which they 

 will do if applied too grofsly, either to the 

 roots, leaves, or branches; for the falts 

 in thofe ingredients have angular particles, 

 (even like very fevere froft) which renders 

 the veflels of plants incapable of retaining 



juice 



