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after that, the ground may be plowed, and 

 fowed with turnips early in the fummer, 

 and eaten off with flieep in the autumn ; 

 which will make a greater improvement in 

 the foil, than any other method will do, at 

 the fame expence. 



Bat if the ground is intended for mea- 

 dow, or to be paftured with cattle, then 

 there is no occafion to pare more than a 

 circle of about ten feet diameter, for each 

 tree ; and burn the turf upon the fpot, as 

 before direfted. 



If the foil is ftrong clay, then before the 

 trees are planted, it muft be often turned 

 over, and well mixed with lime, coal-a/hes, 

 fea-fand, or its own foil burnt, in fuch 

 proportion as dire6led for wall-trees, but 

 not more than a foot deep ; for, if the 

 ground is prepared any deeper, the trees 

 will fettle with the light earth, till tiieir 

 roots be too much below the furface, and 

 be thereby confined to the fpace of ten feet, 

 which was prepared for them while young, 

 but they are defigned to extend their roots 

 further when full grown. 



If the foil is of a tender open nature, 

 and free from gravel and Hones for the 



depth 



