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Fourthly^ If the foil be wet it k hereby made healthy. 



Fifthly, If very dry, the hillock defends from the outward heat. 



Sixthly, It prevents the Couch-grafs,n'/)7f A for the ftrft years in" 

 finjibly robs moji plants in fandy grounds apt to graze. And, 



Laftly, The grazing bank rvi// recompence the nigardly Farmer for 

 the vpafie of his Ditch, vphich othervpife he will forely bethink. 



In the fccond or third year (by what time your Roots jpread") the 

 Trench, if the Ground be moiji, or Seafons wet, will be neer p'll'd 

 up again by the treading of Cattel:^ for it need not be cleanjed '■, but 

 then you muji renew your Thorns: Tet if the Vlanter be curious , I 

 fiiould advije a cajiing of fame fmall quantity ofx\c\\ Mould into the 

 bottome of the Trench the fecond year, which may improve the growth, 

 and invite the Roots to fpread. 



In this manner of Planting, where the foil is not rich, the exaU 

 Planter fitould add a little quantity to each Root of Earth from a fre- 

 quented Hi^h-waj, or Yard where Cittel are kept--. One Load will 

 juffice for jix or feven Trees 5 this being much more proper then rot- 

 ted foil or loofe Earth 5 the fat Mould beft agreeing with the Apple 

 Tree. 



7he broader and deeper your Ditch is,the higher will be your Bank, 

 and the fecurer your Vcvcf^but then you muji addfome good Earth in 

 the fecond year, as before. 



I mufi fubjoyne, 7hat only Trees of an upright growth be thus 

 planted in open grounds •■, becaufe Jpreading of low growing Trees 

 TPill be Hill within reach /j/'Cattel as they encreafe : Nor have I met 

 with any inconvenience in this kjnd of Tranfplanting, (which is ap- 

 plicable to all forts of Trees) but that the Mole and the Knt may find 

 ready entertainment the firfi year, and fometime impairs a wea^ 

 rooted Plant ^ otherrvife it rarely mijcarries. Injum, 



This manner of Fencing is foon executed by an indifferent Work- 

 man, who will eafily Jet and guard fix Trees in a Winter day. Thus 

 far M"^ Buckland: To which we fhall only add. That thofe which 

 are planted in the Hedg-rows need none of thefe defences 5 for (I 

 am told J in Hereford-fhire in the Plantations of their ^ick:fets, 

 or any other, all men did fo Juperjiitioujly place a Crab-jiock^at eve- 

 ry twenty foot diftance, as if they had been under fome rigorous 

 Statute requiring it. 



CHAP. VIII. 



Of Pruning, and life of the Fruit- Trees. 



THe branches are to be lopp'd in proportion to the bruifes of 

 the Roots, whofe fibres elfe fhould only be quickned, not 

 altogether cut off nor intangled .* For the Top, let a little of each 

 arm be lopp'd in Cider-fruit only 5 but for the Pears, cut two or 

 three buds deep at the fummities of their afpiring Branches, juft 



above 



f. 



