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Earth of your Border to be bound, 

 either by great Rains, or from any 

 other Caufe, you lhould fcrk and 

 loofen it again ; obferving always 

 to do it in dry Weather, if in Win- 

 ter or Spring ; but in Summer it 

 fhould be done in a moilt Seafon. 



Although I have here given Di- 

 rections for the Choice of Trees 

 from the Nurfery, after the ufual 

 Method of planting thefe Trees ; 

 which is, that of taking fuch as have 

 made one Year's Shoot ; yet I would 

 prefer thofe which were budded the 

 preceding Summer, and have made 

 no Shoot ; for if the Bud is found 

 and plump, and the Bark • of the 

 Stock well clofed, where the Bud is 

 inferted, there will be no Danger of 

 its growing ; and wh^n the Bud has 

 (hoc to the Length of five or fix Inch- 

 es, if it is ftopp'd by p nching off the 

 Top, it will put out lateral Branches, 

 which may be trained to the Wall ; 

 and this will prevent any cutting off 

 the Head : for thefe Trees do not 

 care for thofe large Amputations, 

 efpecially fome of the more tender 

 Sorts. And by this Method of 

 planting thefe Trees in Bud, no time 

 will be loll i when it is confidcred, 

 that the Trees which have (hot, mult 

 be cut down, and there is an Hazard 

 of their mooting again : therefore I 

 am convinced from Experience, that 

 it is the belt Method. 



After you have thus planted your 

 Trees, you (hq lid fatten their Heads 

 to the Wall, to prevent their being 

 fhaken by the Wind ; which would 

 diiturb their Roots, and break off 

 the tender Fibres foon after they 

 were produced, to the no fmall Pre- 

 judice of the Trees : you mould al- 

 fo lay fome Mulch upon the Sur- 

 face of the Ground about theirRoots, 

 before the Frolt fets in, to prevent it 

 from penetrating the Ground ; which 



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would injure, if notdeilroy, the fmall 

 Fibres. 



Thefe Things being duly obferv- 

 ed, they will require no farther Care 

 till ihzFtbruary following ; toward 

 the Latter-end of which Month, or 

 the Beginning of March, according 

 as the Seafon is earlier or later, you 

 muit cut off the Heads of the new- 

 planted Trees, leaving only four or 

 five Eyes above the Bud ; in doing 

 of which, you mult be very careful 

 not to diiturb their Roots : to pre-, 

 vent which, you fhould place your 

 Foot down clcfe to the Stem of the 

 Tree, and take fait hold of that Part 

 of the Stock below the Bud with one 

 Hand, to hold it fteady, while with 

 the other Hand you gently Hope off 

 the Head of the Tree vvitli a fharp 

 Knife at the intended Place, which 

 mould always be j aft above an Eye: 

 this mouid always be done in dry 

 Weather ; for if there mould be 

 much Rain foon after it is done, the 

 Wet will enter the wounded Fart,and 

 carnage the Tree : nor mould it be 

 done in frolty Weather, for the fame 

 Reafon ; for that would enter the 

 wounded Part, and prevent its heal- 

 ing over. After you have headed 

 the Trees, you fhould gently loofen 

 the Earth of the Borders, to admit 

 the Fibres of the Roots : but you 

 mult be very careful, in doing of 

 this, not to cut or bruife their new 

 Roots, which would alio da- 

 mage them : and if the Mulch which 

 was laid about their Roots in Au- 

 tumn be rotten, you may dig it into 

 the Border at fome Diitance from 

 the Roots of the Trees ; and when 

 the dry Weather comes on, you 

 fhould pare off fome Turf from a 

 Failure - ground, which mould be 

 laid upon the Surface of the Border 

 about the Roots of the Trees, turn- 

 ing the Grafs downward : which 

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