Chap. Vl. of Gardening. 



three Inches afundei^, according to their Size, holding the 

 Plant againft the Ground, which, upon one Side of the 

 Trench, fliould be cut perpendicular, and keeping it there 

 with the Back of your Left Hand, throw in the Earth about 

 the Roots with your Right Hand, till they are quite cover'd. 

 Take Care that the Plants be fet right, and well adjufted 

 one with another 5 ^fter which fill up the Trench entirely, 

 and tread the Ground with your Feet to fettle it. 



Palisades that are planted large, and fix or feven 

 Foot high, are not fo fure of taking Root, as the young 

 Horn-beam which I efteem infinitely the better x But there 

 is an ill Cuftom amongft Gardeners, \vhich is to cut the 

 Horn-beaufi to the Level of the Ground, which is very inju- 

 rious to it, and hinders its growing upright, making no 

 more than a Parcel of Stubs, fpringing out of one- Side and 

 the other. I made tlie Experiment of a Palifade of Horn- 

 beam cut in this Manner, and of another which I let grow 

 its whole Height ; and 1 found that the Palifade which had 

 not been cut, came up much better and more upright than 

 the other, though in the fame Ground. 



A SMALL Space fhould be left behind the Palifadcs when 

 they are planted againft a Wall, partly for the Palifade, that 

 you may come to work at, and to clip the Back of it and 

 partly for the Wall, which, by this means, ]s. preferved 

 much better and longer. 



You muft take great Care of putting Dung into- the 

 Holes where you intend to plant your Trees, under the 

 Pretence of dunging them, for if you lay the Dung too 

 low, itisufelefs, by reafon the Sak of it can't aife^l the 

 Roots ; and if you put it towards the Top, it will rot the 

 Stem of the Tree, breed Worms, and dry up the Ground,,^ 

 all which are but too apt to- bring a Mortality upon young. 

 Plants. You fliould put nothing into thefe Holes but gooi 

 frefii Earth i and to keep the new planted Trees, from tlae 

 great Heats in Summer, you may fpread, upon the Surface 

 of the Ground about the Foot of them:, fix, or feven Indies. 

 Thicknefs of half-rotten Dung, becaufe 'tis then fuller of 

 Salts and vegetable Spirits^ which the Rain and Waterings, 

 will foak and carry down to the Roots of die Trees^. 



