3 E CTj VIII. OF PLANTING. 



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In a foil that trees are found to canker m T and get 

 otherwife difeafecl, it is of no ufe (generally fpeaking) 

 to •wait their getting better ;. but if there is any fpot of 

 a more promifing quality, thofe that are not too old and 

 far gone may be removed there, and perhaps recover; 

 but let the root be examined, well as the head, to cut 

 out any difeafed part. If the fhoots fhould be weak the 

 firft year, prune down clofe the fecond* and flrong 

 wood may poiTibly follow. 



With refpeft to the foil that fuits every •particular 

 kind of tree, there is fome variety of opinions. Gene- 

 rally fpeaking, a true loam fuits every thing. See 

 Formation of a Garden, Seft. 3. 



The following particulars feem to have a pretty 

 common confent. Vines love a rich dry foil, gravelly 

 or fandy, if it does not bind. Figs like much the fame 

 foil, though they need not fo rich a one: allies are good 

 in the foil for figs. Apricots flourifh in a light loam; 

 but peaches and neclarines fhould have a fomewhat 

 flrong loam, and the latter needs the warmer or richer 

 foil of the two. Pears like a flrong but dry foil; apples 

 a flrong and a cool one, if it is not wet. Cherries \ 

 plums, walnuts, and mulberries, prefer a dry, fandy t 

 gravelly, or light foil, though they will grow in a 

 ftronger ; plums do very well in a moift foil, and pro- 

 duce the larger fruit in it, but the flavour is inferior. 

 Quinces flourifh moll in a rich and moift foil, as by a 

 brook or river's fide, or where a rich wafh from finks, 

 or dunghills, runs occafionally about their roots : in a 

 dry foil their fruit is fmall, though higher flavoured : It. 

 is an univerfal rule, that fruits are forwarder and more 

 grateful in dry foils, but of lefs fize. 



Though the vine be planted in a right foil, yet it 

 will require to be fed and enlivened with fome fpiri- 

 tous manure, either in autumn or fpring. For this 

 purpofe water impregnated with foe eft s dung and frefh 

 urine has been ufed. The top fdil being removed, 

 hullocksy or which is beft, hogs bloody is fometimes 

 F 4* applied; 



