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ter for others, and at that diftance they 

 will make good timber, for which they are 

 1110ft valuable. 



The next rows to the fouth-eaft, or fouth- 

 weft, I fliould advife to be wahiuts, at 

 thirty feet apart; but I think this is too 

 little for their growing to be large trees ; 

 but I do it to Ihelter the apples or pears, 

 which I propofe next at forty feet apart, 

 and a mulberry the fame ; then cherries at 

 twenty-four feet apart, and on the fide or 

 fides that is moft to the fouth, either plums, 

 quinces, medlars, almonds, or filberds, at 

 eighteen feet apart. 



SECT. III. 

 How to prepare Soils for Orchards. 



/\ F TER the places are appointed for 

 l7\. trees, if the ground be grafs, tho* 

 intended to be plowed or dug after 

 planting, it muft be pard and burnt; and 

 obferve, there ought to be a fire upon every 

 fpot where the trees are to be planted. 



This work muft be done in the fumnier 

 or fpring, when tlie weather is dry ; and, 



after 



