42 
New Principles of Gardening. 
it having a very ffrange and uncommon Fertility in it, more 
than any other Compoft of Made-Earths whattoever. Betore 
you fill up the Hole, pave the Bottom with broken Tiles, 
Brick-Bats, &c. to prevent the Roots getting into the poz/o- 
nous Clay. fe 
If your Land bea (harp hot Sand or Gravel, mix frefo Mould, 
Cow-Dung, Hor fe-Dung, well rotted, and a mild Clay, toge- 
gether in a Compoft, which if made in the Spring, and turn’d 
monthly in the Summer, may be ufed in October. 
When you plant in a very good fandy Loam, ’rwill not be 
amifs to mix your Earth with the Compoft of freb Earth be- 
fore preferibed, for *tis of admirable Service. 
In the planting of Fruit-Trees, the following Methods are to be 
obferved : 
Firft, That the Zarth be truly prepared as before directed. 
Secondly, \f your Land be not cold and wet, plant in Odfo- 
ber, November, or December at lateft, for thereby, during the 
Winter, the Roots will be /wellimg and preparing themfelves to 
to put forth their tender Fibres and Strick-Root early in the 
Spring. 
But if your Land is saturally cold, wet, and heavy, ’tis beft 
to plant in February, when the see is making its Entrance, 
and the Earth growing warm, which wouribes the Roots of 
Trees; whereas, was they planted in Oéfober or November, the 
wet and cold might have kill’d their Roots. 
To plant Trees late in the Spring, as. March or April, in 
light Soils, is very dangerous ; “tis too often feen, that the parch+ 
ing Winds and dry Weather prove fatal to them. 
Thirdly, That you don’t plant the Trees too deep; for there- 
by, in four or five Years, the Roots will be got below the 
good Earth, which will throw the Tree into a /ickly decaying 
Condition. 
If the upper Roots of any Tree be fix or feven Inches below 
the Surface, ’tis fufficient, for all the bef? Fusces of the Earth 
lies near to the Surface. | 
Fourthly, That Fruit-Trees be not planted too near; for af 
ter five or fix Years, they crowd one another, and caufe many 
Branches to be nailed near a Perpendicular, which will leflen 
theFruit, and foon rim the Tree, efpecially Peach. and Apr 
. cot= 
