[8 POMONA; 



CHAP. VII. 



Of the Fencing. 



SEeing a Cider-Orchard is but a wild Plantation, beft in Arable 

 well enclos'd from Beafis.^znA yet better on the Tops, Ridges, 

 and natural Inequalities, (though with fome lofs of Order, as we 

 fhew'd,) one of the greateft difcouragements is the prejerving of 

 our Trees being planted, the raifing of them fo familiar. 



We have in our Sjilva treated in particular of this, as of one of 

 the moft material objiacles j wherein yet we did purpofely omit 

 one Expedient, which came then to our hands from the very Indu- 

 ftrious Mr. Buckland to the Learned Mr. Bert/: You fhall have it in 

 his own words. 



This ofFtncmgfingle Trees ufeth to be done by Rails at great char- 

 ges ^ or by Hedges and Bulhcs, which every other year m»ji be re- 

 vevp'd^and the materials not to be had in all places neither, I there- 

 fore prefer and commend to you the enjuing form of Planting and 

 Fencing, which is more cheap and eafie, and vphich hath other Ad- 

 vantages in it, and not commonly kfioven. I never farv it but once, 

 and taat imperfeCfly perform' d-^ but have pra&is'd it my felf jp/^A 

 fucceft : Takf it thus. 



Set your Tree on the Green-fwarth, or five or fix inches under it 

 if the foil be very healthy ^ if moift or weeping, half a foot above it 5 

 then cut a Trench round that Tree, two foot or more in the cleare 

 from it : Lay a rank_ofthe Turfs, with the grafs outward,upott the irv- 

 ncr Jide of the Trench towards your Plant, and then a fecond ranf^ 

 upon the former, and Jo a third, and fourth, all orderly p lac d, (^ as 

 in a Fortification) and leaning towards the Tree, after the form of 

 a Pyramide, or larger Hop-hill .■ Always as you place a row of Turfe 

 in compafs, you muji fill up the inner part of the Circle with the loofi 

 Earth of the fecond {^\t which you dig out of your Trench, and which 

 is to be two foot and half wide, or more, as you defire to mount the 

 hillock, which by this means yon will have rais'd about your Plant 

 near three foot in heighth. At the point it needs not be above two 

 foot or eighteen inches diametre, where you may leave the Earth in 

 form of a Uifti, to convey the Rain towards the body of the Tree 5 

 and upon the top of this hillock pricks up five or fix; fmall Briars or 

 Thorns, binding them lightly to the body of the Plant, and you have 

 finifij'dthe work. 



The commodities of thts kif^d of Planting are, 



Firft, Neither Swine, nor Sheep, nor any other fort of Cattel can 

 annoy your Trees. 



Secondly, Tou may adventure to fit thefmaller Plants, being thus 

 raifed, andfecur'd from the reach of Cattel. 



Thirdly, Tour Trees fafi en in the Hillock againji violence of 

 Winds, without Stakes to fret and canker them. 



Fourthly, 



