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Of the pe of Preparing Lands for Plantations y 
»EruitT-TeeeEs. 
Z : = = HE. bett Seafon for. preparing Lands, wherein we defign to 
& make Plantations of Fruit-Trees; is Ofober,.or as foon after 
~as the Moifture of the Ground will admit: 
1F your Ses is, oo re is, when abode two. Feet j in Depth, 
beft to trench it two Spits, and Te Crumb (as term’d by cone 
in Depth, laying the Spit that is taken’ from the Bottom in Ridges, that 
the Winter Rains and Frofts may mellow it; and exhale away the Cru- 
dities thereof. But if your Land is fhallow, the beft Method is to dig 
it one fingle Spit only, and that to be laid in ate! for the Ration 
aforefaid, and. level’ a “aaa 
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IF your Land is not over freth or 1ich, would o vey ferviceable 
to mix in the Working a good Coat of Horfe-dung well rotted, fuch as 
old Cucumber and Melon Beds, ¢°c. but not. new Dung on any account, 
it being perfect Poifon to the Roots Sha bac tplate=s acess 
IN the “Tiencliite of Land, C Gare fhould-be as - iB Workmen 
don’t leave Cores of undifturb’d Earth between the bottom Spits of each 
Trench, as they are apt to do, when they work by the Grate, (nay, 
whe by the Day) and that their Spits are’of a moderate Size ; for when 
Lands ~are digged with large Spits, they cannot meliorate fo well, .as 
when with moderately {mall ones, and confequently are then: lefs fit. for 
cn free: Penetration of ‘thofe Roots ‘which . we dofite fhonld._.thrive 
therein, 
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