FRUIT-TREES. ^j 



wanting heat enough from the fun, to 

 caufean hiimediate evaporation, are there- 

 by ftarv'd. 



I have always found it more proper to 

 plant immediately after the roots were 

 drefled, in the manner before-mentioned; 

 and it is but reafonable to imagine, that 

 they will meet with moifture enough in the 

 earth, and fuch forts as are more proper 

 for them, than the waters taken from ei- 

 ther fprings, rivers, or ponds; for the for- 

 mer, by pafling through the pores of the 

 earth, are mixt with the fah particles there- 

 of, which caufe a fermentation in the vef- 

 fels or capillary tubes, as foon as they enter 

 them. 



C H A P. XXX. 



Of pruning Branches at the Time of 

 Planting. 



A Method which I have obferved to 

 be generally praftifed, though of 

 very ill confequence, is cutting the branches 

 too fliort, and leaving too many in num- 

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