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of Planting has not been peculiar to 

 the French ; for moft of cue Gardens 

 in EngLnd have been little better 

 planted. Indeed* thofe Perfons who. 

 were intruded with the making and 

 planting moft of the Englijh Gar- 

 dens, had little Skill of their own ; 

 fo were obliged to follow the Dire- 

 ctions of the Trench Gardeners ; of 

 whom they had fo great an Opinion, 

 as to get their Books tranflat#d ; and 

 to thefe have added fome trifling 

 Notes, which rather betrays their 

 Weakneis : for where they have ob- 

 jected to the little rcom which their 

 Authors had allowed to thefe Trees, 

 they have, at the moft, allow'd them 

 hut three Feet more : hern which it 

 is plain, they had not confidcr'd the 

 natural Growth of the Trees ; and 

 whoever departs from Nature, may 

 be juftly prqnouncd an unfkilful 

 Gardener. 



As moft of the Englijb Gardens 

 have been made and planted by 

 Perfons of little Judgment, it is very 

 rare to find any of them which pro- 

 duce much Fruit; for although many 

 of thefe Gardens have been totally 

 altered, and new-planted, yet they 

 have feldom been much alter'd for 

 the better ; and the PoiTeiTors have 

 been put to theExpence of removing 

 the old Trees, alfo the Earth of their 

 Borders, and to purchafe new Trees, 

 which have been planted perhaps a 

 Foot or two farther afunder, than 

 the old Trees, which were remov'd: 

 fo that when the young Trees have 

 grown a few Years, they were in the 

 feme Condition as the old, and it 

 has been the Lofs of fo many Years 

 to the Owner. But this will cou- 

 ilantly be the Cafe, when it is the 

 Intereft of the Perfons employ Vl, 

 who can fell fo many young Trees; 

 and the planting of three times the 

 Number of T rees in a Garden, 

 fpojre than is proper, may in fome 



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meafure be afcruVd to the fame^ 

 though, in many Inftances, I mould 

 be inclinable to think it has proceed- 

 ed from Ignorance, rather than De« 



fign. 



But where Fruit-trees have been 

 thus injudicioufly planted, if the 

 S ocks are healthy and good, the 

 beft way to recover tins Lofs is, to 

 dig up two or three, and leave every 

 third or fourth Tree, according to 

 the Pittance which they were plant- 

 ed; and (pread down the Eranches 

 of thofe which are left horizontally, 

 1 mean, all fuch as are capable of 

 being fo brought down ; but thofe 

 which are too ftubborn for this, 

 mould be cut off near the Stem, 

 where there will be new Shoots 

 enough produced to furnifh the Wall 

 or Elpalier : and if the Sort of Fruit 

 is not the fame asdefired, the young 

 Branches may be budded the fame 

 Summer, or grafted the following 

 Spring, with any other Sort of Pear; 

 and hereby many Years may be 

 faved ; for one of thefe old Trees 

 will fpread to a much greater 

 Length, and produce more Fruit, 

 when thus managed, in three Year.% 

 than a new Tree will in ten or 

 twelve; efpecially if the Ground is. 

 mended. This is a Method which 

 I have praclifed with great Succcfs, 

 where I have been employed to 

 amend the Blunders of thefe great 

 Gardeners, as they are ftiled ; and 

 hereby the Walls and Efpaliers have 

 been well furnihYd in a few Years. 



But the next thing to be done, af- 

 ter being furriihYd with proper 

 Trees, is the preparing of the 

 Ground to receive them; in doing 

 which, there mould be great Regard 

 had to rhe Natuie of the Soil where 

 the Trees are to grow ; for if it is a 

 ftrong tfifr Land, and fubjecl to Wet 

 in the Winter, the Borders ihould be 

 railed as much at eve the Level of 



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