TREATISE 



OF 



FRUIT-TREES. 



CHAP. I* 



Observations on Soils proper fo4 

 Fruit-Trees* 



WHAT I fhall advance conax?A.!g 

 foils proper for fruit-trees is not 

 a bare hypothecs, but founded 

 on various experiments I have made, both 

 upon old and new planted trees, with good 

 fuccefs. 



The foils in which I have found moft 

 kinds of fruit-trees to thrive and bear 

 beft, are either of a red, black, brown^ 

 or grey colour, of a ftrong nature, more 

 inclining to clay than fand, to the depth 

 of two feeti if more, not the worfej not 

 B having 



