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roots, that is, about a foot broader than 

 what they extend, and confine the tops to 

 fuch flakes as its fize requires. 



If the foil be too wet, and there is a de- 

 fcent to any fide, let there be drains made 

 to it (betwixt each row of trees) about 

 half a yard deep, and lay faggots in the 

 bottom, about a foot thick; then place 

 the fods over them, with the grafs upper- 

 moft, and the remainder of the earth may 

 be fpread over the other grafs ground. If 

 a tree be covered v/ith mofs, and bloIToms 

 plentifully, without making much length 

 of fhoots, but does not bear much, or the 

 fruit but fmall, without being fliaded by 

 others, then there is a neceffity of thinning 

 the branches, and fcraping off the mofs, the 

 fame as though the tree was to be re- 

 moved. 



Sometimes a tree that is planted too deep, 

 in good foil, will flioot ftrongly, but not 

 bloffom much; if it be not large, raife 

 it higher; or take off the foil, till the upper 

 roots are covered no more than an inch 

 thick with earth. 



If a tree flioots vigoroufiy^ and is plant- 

 ed of a proper depth, and at more than 

 thirty feet diftance from any other, the 

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