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2. Thus will they grow fafe from Winds\ yet the top 

 Ipreading. 



5. Thusfliall they bear vaxxch Fruit -^ I dare (ay, one as much 

 as five of your common Trees, all his branchesloaden. 



4. Thus '{hall your Bod being low defraud the branches but 

 little of theiryS/j. 



5 . Thus (hall your Treesl be eafie to dref, and as eafie to gather 

 the Frnit from, without bruifing the Cyons^j&c 



6. The fitteft time of the Moon for Pruning is (as of Graffing) 

 when the fip is ready to ftir ("not proudly ftirringj and fo to co- 

 ver the wound. Old Trees would be prun'd before young Plants : 

 And note, that wherefoever you take any thing away, the fap the 

 next Summer will be putting : be fure therefore when he puts to 

 bud in any unfit place, you rub it off with your finger ; Thus be- 

 gin timely with your Treet, and you may -'bring them to what 

 form you pleafe. If you defire any Tree fliould be taller, let him 

 break,, or divide higher : This iox young Trees : The old are re- 

 formed by curing of their dijeajes, of which we have already dif- 

 cours'd. There is this only to be confider'd, in reference to Fo- 

 reliers, out of what he has (poken concerning Fruit-trees } that 

 where Trees are planted for (hadow , and meer ornament, as in 

 Walks, and Avenues, the Browfe-vpood ( as they call it ) fliould 

 moft of it be cherifliedi whereas in Fruit, and Timber-trees ( Oak, 

 excepted J it is beft to free them of it : As for Foliar ds fto which 

 I am no great friend becaufe it makes fo mzny fcrags and dvparfes 

 of many Trees which would elfe be good Timber, endangering ' 

 them with drips and the like injuries') they (hould not be headed 

 above once in ten or twelve years, at the beginning of the J^ring, 

 or end of the FaU. 



7. For the improvement of the (peedy growth of Tree/, there is 

 not a more excellent thing then the frequent rubbing of the Boal or 

 Stem, with fome piece of hair-cloth, or ruder ftutf, at the begin- 

 ning of Spring : fome I have known done with Seales-skin > the 

 more rugged bark with a piece of Coat oiMaile, which is made of 

 fmall TPyres ^ this done, when the body of the Trees are wet, as 

 after a (baking Rain ; yet fo, as not to excorticate, or gall the Tree^ 

 has exceedingly accelerated its growth, by opening the pores , 

 freeing them of mofs, and killing the tvorm. 



8. Laftly, Frondatien, or the taking off (bme of the luxuriant 

 branches, and fprays, of fuch Trees , efpecially whofe leaves arc 

 profitable for Cattel(whexeoi already) is a kind of pr«/7/»^ .• and 

 fo is the fiarifying, and crofs hatching of fome Fruit-bearers, and 

 others, to abate that (^vn^oyL^viA which (pends all the juice in the 

 leaves to the prejudice of the reft of the parts. 



9. This, and the like, belonging to the c^re of the ^'W-jp^r^i 

 will mind him of his continual duty 5 which is to walk about, and 

 furvey his young Plantations daily 5 and to fee that all Gaps be im- 

 mediately ftopp'd ^ trefpafling Cattle impounded ^ and (" where 

 they are infeftedj the Deer chaled out, d^c. It is moft certain that 

 Trees prelerv'd, and govern'd by this dijlipUne, and according to 



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