The PraBice Part II, 



other Remedy in this Cafe^ than to avoid marking Choice of 

 a Situation where the Ground is fo ill compofed. 



If the Soil where you have planted your Trees is too 

 dry, you may help it by baring the Roots of a Tree^ and 

 fupplying it with good new Earth that is very frefli : If, on 

 the contrary, the Soil be too moift, you may in like man- 

 ner lay the Roots bare, and fill the Hole with Horfe-dung a 

 little rotten, which will give Warmth to the Ground. 



The Diftempers that are caufed by the bad Conftitution 

 of Trees, and by their natural Defe<5ls, are in a manner in- 

 curable y for if the Tree be defective in its Roots, or in its 

 Stem, the beft you can do is to throw it away, and plant a 

 better in its Place : But if Diftempers fall upon a Tree after 

 planting, and you fee it has taken no outward Hurt, you 

 muft lay it open and examine its Roots, to find if any of 

 them are rotten, or knawn by Vermin 5 if they are, you 

 ^ muft cut them to the quick Wood, which will refrefli them^ 

 and make them put out new Fibers. Sometimes alfo this 

 proceeds from Carelefnefs in planting a Tree, when all its 

 Roots are not well filled in with Earth, but Cavities or • 

 Stones left about fome of them, which hinders their tmiting 

 with the Ground, and makes a Tree fuffer extremely. You 

 may do this Work at any time, except during the Rife or 

 F^ll of the Sap, and fill the Hole again forthwith with new 

 Earth, for fear the Roots take Wind. 



If the Diftemper proceeds not from the Roots, but you 

 find them in good Condition, and yet the Tree pines, you 

 muft then free the Head of fome Part of its Branches, or 

 water its Head well to revive it, which is a great Relief to it. 



You Ihould farther obferve, that in Places where Trees 

 of the fame Kind have died two or three times one after ano- 

 ther, the Species fhould be changed ; the Earth being worn 

 out for this Kind, and becoming new to another 3 as if fe- 

 veral Elms fhould die fucceffively in the fame Place, you 

 Ihould put Lime-Trees^ Horfe-^Chefnuts, or other Kinds, in 

 their Rooms. 



Whek you have Palifades to furnifli again, you fliould 

 obferve the fame Thing. So a Palifade of Horn-beam may 

 t)y one pf Maple^ Beech^ or young Elms, for 



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