FRUIT-TREES. g 



Any foil too wet is improper for fruit- 

 trees, whether they are planted again fl: 

 walls, or are efpaliers, dwarfs, or ftand- 

 ards. Cherry-trees are often killed by it, 

 and apples, pears, &c. are covered with 

 mofs, the extreme parts of their branches 

 are cankered and die, and the fruit, if 

 they bear any, is fmall and ill tafted. 

 Peaches, neftarlnes, and apricots, are very 

 much hurt by it, and the trees if they live 

 produce a fpungy wood fubjecft to blights, 

 and unhealthy, and the fruit, if any, are 

 infipid. Vines and figs require a drier foil 

 than any of thefe before mentioned ; and 

 I fhall in another place fhew how to pre- 

 pare it. 



CHAP. II. 



Draining of Soils. 



CLAY, or any wet foil, may be Improv- 

 ed by draining; in order to which, 

 for wall-trees, trenches maybe made, about 

 half a yard wide at the bottom, and one 

 foot deeper than the borders are made, clofe 

 by the edge of the walks adjoining ; thefe 

 B 2 trenches 



