FRUIT-TREES. 71 



CHAP. XXVII. 



How to pack up Trees fo, as that they 

 may be carried fafe to places remote 

 from whence they are raifed. 



IMuft own that I have received peach- 

 trees and neftarines from Mr. Henry 

 Woodman of Strand on the Green, in the 

 county of Middlefex, which I planted for 

 the Reverend Mr. Ewer, of Bottisford near 

 Belvoir caftle^ all of them lived and fome 

 bore fruit the firft year after planting, 

 tho' they were brought above a hundred 

 miles, and only packed up with ftraw and 

 matts ; they have been planted nine years, 

 and are now ftrong healthy trees. 



But there is a better method of packing 

 trees, efpecially apples, pears, plums, cher- 

 ries, &c. that are defigned for walls and 

 efpaliers, by reafon of their fliapes de- 

 fcribed fome pages before, which is this. 

 Let there be provided large hampers, made 

 of the fame materials as thofe commonly 

 ufed for packing bottles in, v/hen they are 

 to be conveyed to diftant places, and let 

 F 4 their 



