^64 A TREATISE OF 



bloflbms, and pears till their firft leaves are 

 almoft full grown. 



When the weather is inclining to v/hat 

 we cotr.monly call black frolls, as it often 

 is in the fpring, I have made ufe of another 

 method to preferve fruit v/ith great fuccefs, 

 v/hich is only watering the borders every 

 afternoon when the trees are in blofibm, 

 and this has produced the defired etreftj 

 for in this fort of weather there being 

 no dews in the nights for the trees to im- 

 bibe, their juices become thick and gluti- 

 nous, and confequently flower in motion, 

 v/hereby they lefs refill the penetrating 

 force of the froft. 



Perhaps fome may objeft againft water- 

 ing, and fay, that it is too cold and periih- 

 ing in fuch fort of weather : but whoever 

 fliall be pleafed to make trial, will find 

 the contrary, for it encreafes heat in the 

 trees, by accelerating the motion of their 

 juices, efpecially where the borders on 

 which they ftand have been prepared and 

 ordered, as before dire6led. Where borders 

 are old, and become poor by having had 

 many crops growing upon them, or if 

 they have been manured with dung that 



was 



