G H A p. ■ VII. of Gardening. 



In the Squares of Woods where you would raife Trees 

 to a great Height, you Ihould have an Eye to the young 

 Plants, and after you have let them get a little Strength, 

 trim them with thePruning-Knife, leaving only one upright 

 Shoot : You may likewife, at proper Diftances, leave fome 

 of the moft ill-jhapen Plants without pruning, and make 

 Layers of their Branches for furniihing the Under- Wood. 



Thf right Time for pruning Trees, is a little before 

 Winter, or in the Beginning of Spring, that the great 

 Wounds you make in them be the lefs expofed to the Frofts, 

 and that they may recover themfelves the more eafily. 



Laftly^ When a Wood is grown to 20 or 3 0 Foot Height, 

 they make ufe -of a Bill, and get up upon Ladders to lop the 

 ufeiefs Branches, with tlie Precaution to cut rhem as clofe as 

 poffible to the Trunk of the Tree, and a little floping, which 

 the French call a Deer's-Foot, that tlie Water may run off 

 from them without rotting the Tree. You muft not be 

 concerned at thinning your Wood at firft, and deftroying a 

 . little of the Covert in its younger Years i for, in the End, 

 the Trees will become taller, ftraiter, and infinitely hand- 

 femer. 



To all the Care I have "been now fpeaking of, muft be 

 added that too of vifiting your Trees from time to time, to 

 ileal their Maladies, and to deftroy the Infeds and Vermin 

 that attack them , the Means of doing which^ is what I am 

 next to treat of. 



The Difeafes of Trees proceed either from the natural 

 Bottom of Earth, or from their own Defefts and bad Con- 

 ftitution, or elfe from the Attacks made upon them by Ani- 

 mals, Infe£ts and Vermin, which may be truly faid to be 

 the profeifed Enemies of a Garden. 



The Difeafes that arife from the natural Bottom of the 

 £arth,^ are very difificult to be cured 5 as if the Ground be 

 full of Sand-Stones, or have a Bottom of white Clay. It 

 were to no purpofe to change the Ground for three Foot 

 ^deep throughout, and bring in better in its Room for 

 When the Roots of the Trees have once reached this bad. 

 Bottom, you'll ^ee them latiguifb, mrn yellow, and decay- 

 Year after Year^ and at length die away. There is no 



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