104. 



OF PLANTING. 



SECT. VIII, 



applied; or it may be let in by making holes with a 

 fmooth fharp-pointed flake, not too near the Hem, A 

 little jheep's dung, or that of poultry, dug in regularly 

 every autumn, is a good, neat, ftanding rule. 



4. The situation propereft lor planting any 

 particular kind of tree is. to be confidered; for fome 

 like a low, fome a high, fome a moifl, fome a dry fitua- 

 tion ; but it is fpoken here chiefly of fruit trees. Par- 

 ticularly obferve that pears grafted on quince flocks, 

 jnuft have amoift foil, or they will not do well. 



The general fituation of a country will in a meafurc 

 rule; for though England be but an ifland it has many 

 climates in it, and certain plants will do better in one 

 place than another, (even w T ithin the fpace of a few 

 miles) as to effefts from weather. The difference 

 between hill and valley in the fame place, is fomething, 

 fo that in the latter the tender bloffoms of trees (hall 

 efcape, when in the former, unkind winds fhall cut 

 them off: — not that valleys are always fafe, for they 

 have fometimes definitive blafls from mifts. 



Peas fown to fland the winter, in a garden on a hill, 

 and in another only a hundred yards below, in a vale, 

 the former expofed, and the latter well fheltered, will 

 demonllrate \^\\?X fituation will do; for the peas below 

 will live when the others are cut off, and perhaps come 

 in a week earlier, when both furvive the winter unin- 

 jured. 



In very expofed places, efpecially northwards, little 

 fruit can be expeflied from the more delicate wall trees; 

 it is prudent therefore to avoid planting in cold places 

 the tenderejl, or the earlieft, or the lateft forts. The 

 difference of latitude between Middlefex and Northa?np- 

 ton/hire makes commonly a fortnight in the coming in 

 ef many things; fo that, generally fpeaking, what is 

 called an Oclober peach, is oi little worth in the latter 

 county, though in the former it may do well : Without 

 plenty of walling for experiment, therefore, do not plant 

 late fruit far northwards of London* 



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