1 6 7he Gardeners Kalendar. Jan. 

 you (liculd prefer fuch as grow upon the fruit- 

 ful branches of healthy trees, and that have 

 good buds to them. 



In mild weather you muft prepare fuch bor- 

 ders as are defigned for planting with fruit- 

 trees the fucceeding month, laying a good 

 quantity of frefh earth thereon, making it level, 

 that it may have fome time to fettle before the 

 trees are planted. You may alfo repair the 

 borders about old fruit-trees, which want 

 amendment, by laying fome frefli earth and 

 well-rotted dung upon them ; if the foil is cold 

 and moift, then the rotten dung from the old 

 Melon and Cucumber-beds, will be the moft 

 proper; but where the foil is hot, neats dung 

 is by far thebeft; or where that cannot be had, 

 rotten hogs dung is very good manure for fruit- 

 trees; thefe being naturally colder than any 

 other fort of dung, will keep the earth cool 

 about their roots in the fummer feafon. Where- 

 ever any of thefe dungs are applied to fruit- 

 trees, they fliouid be thoroughly rotted before 

 they are laid on the borders, otherwife they 

 will do more harm than good. But if the 

 trees are old, it will be of little fervice to add 

 this near their ftems; for the roots which fup- 

 piy them with nourifhment, are extended to a 

 confiderable diftance : therefore the whole 



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