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where there are many flowers and an edg- 

 ing of box. 



I own that a pear, apple, plum, apri- 

 cot, fig, vine, and fome kinds of cherries, 

 will, where the foil is of a proper fort with- 

 in, though it be covered with grafs, gravel, 

 or paved) and if the vines be low ones, the 

 grapes ripen earlier, with gravel, or pave- 

 ment near them, than if there was none. 



But I never lav/ the beil fort of peaches 

 and neftarines, nor even fome kinds of. 

 cherries, profper well in any fach fituations 9 

 but were geneially annoyed with the honey- 

 dews, and frnother-flies, even to the de- 

 fl:ru6lion of the greateft part of every one 

 of their young branches; which tends to 

 the lofs of fruit, or at leaft of good fruit : 

 for where the upper ends of branches are 

 killed, the others don't bear fo good fruit 

 as thofe that are whole; as I v.ill anfwer 

 for it they will, if the borders are made 

 and ordered as I have direftwd, admit the 

 trees have other things, necellary done to 

 them when required. 



I could exprefs where this practice has 

 been fuccefsful in many places ; but per- 

 haps the owners would not like to have . 

 S 3 their 



