FRUIT-TREES. 255 



CHAP. XCI. ^ 



Of the Ordering of old Borders. 



MOST old borders that I have k^n 

 do not exceed four feet in breadth, 

 many having an edging of box next the 

 walks, and commonly filled either with 

 large growing flowers, or elfe with peafe, 

 colliflowers, or fome other kitchen veget- 

 ables; but thefe things, as I faid before, 

 are very prejudicial to wall- trees, efpecially 

 peaches and ne6larines, which I have ob- 

 ferved in trees from one year old to twen- 

 ty- 



In the firft place, the borders mufl be 



cleared of all thofe incumbrances, and not 

 crowded with any thing more than what I 

 have direfted to be planted upon thofe new 

 made ; after that let them be trenched in 

 the following manner, and falts added, 

 according as the texture of the foil re- 

 quires. 



Firft, open the bordjer at one end, the 

 whole breadth, and about a yard in length, 

 taking away the earth, till the uppermoft 



roots 



