364 A TREATISE OF 

 depth of a foot below the furface, there 

 requires nothing more after burning, but 

 to dig it over about the compafs of ten 

 feet diameter for every tree 5 mixing with 

 it a little foot, and picking out all roots of 

 twitch-grafs and other perennial weeds. 



Where the foil is chiefly gravel, fend full 

 of pebbles, or a rock too near the furface, 

 take av;ay the ftony barren part thejcof 

 about the depth of a foot, and to what 

 remains add good foil in quantity propor- 

 tionable to that taken away, and of fuch 

 a fort as direfted for wall-trees. 



Though I have directed to dig and ma- 

 nure the ground only a foot deep, yet 

 its natural quality (hould be examin'd 

 deeper, and where you meet with wa- 

 ter or fharp fand, within a foot and a 

 half of the furface, it is not proper for the 

 cherry, walnut, chefnut, medlar, and 

 pears and the fewer of thefe kinds of trees 

 are planted in this fort of foih the better ; 

 but either rock or clay v/ill fuit them very 

 welL 



If the ground defigned for planting Vv ith 

 fruit-trees has been dug or ploughed, fo 

 as to render it poor^ then either foot, lime, 



&c. 



