POMON A: Or, 
or keep them from Fruit-Trees, but frequent Waterings, which never 
yet have been known to fail. 
TIS obfervable that thefe Infects never come in great Plenty, but 
when the Spring is very dry ; and even then when the Weather changes 
to Rain, and becomes very wet, they inftantly perifh. 
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THEREFORE fince Nature has taught us a fure Method of de- 
ftroying thofe Vermine, we have nothing more to do than to keep our 
Fruit-Trees in a continual fupple State, by early and frequent Waterings 
in dry Seafons, when thofe Infeéts moftly rage. But ic is abfolutely ne- 
ceflary to begin thefe Waterings before the Leaves are infefted by them, 
fince it is.a Refrefhment, and the Trouble very inconfiderable. 
I AM not infenfible that many Gardeners will condemn thefe — 
Praétices, becaufe the {mall Trouble of Coverings, Openings, and Wa- 
terings, may perhaps be more than they care for: but however, fince 
that after a great Expence and long Time waiting, we are defirous of 
reaping the Fruits of our Labours, we fhould never be fhort of laying 
abfolute Command on the Gardener, fince the Succefs is very precarious 
without, and the Trouble very little, as before obferv d. 
BUT to return from this Digreffion. It appears by what is before 
faid of the exhaling Nature of the Eaftern Winds, that the Fruit-Trees. 
of Soils which are of very moift ftrong Natures, can better difpenfe 
with thofe great Exhalations, than thofe growing in Soils that are na- 
turally hot and dry ; for the moift Lands can more ftrongly fupport the _ 
_ young Fruits with Moifture, than thofe that are lefs furnifh’d therewith, a 
But this does only happen when the Spring proves dry, becaufe when 
there are Rains fufficient to fupport the Perfpiration of Plants in light 
Re Uy Soils, then the Moifture in moift ftrong Lands is in too great a 
Quantity, and the Trees being faturated and clogg’d therewith, for want 
of fufficient Heat to exhale and perfpire it away, become immature and 
| ieee mY the over-and-aboye Crudities contain’d therein. : 
“Now from hence ‘tis very probable, that Kent, ee Soil is na- 
turally very moift, produces greater Crops of Cherries in dry Summers, 
than in wet ones : a contra. 
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