30 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



Where there is not a proper defcent to carry off the water, 

 the bottom of the main walk fhould be filled up with brick- 

 bats or ftones, and the fmall ftones raked from the quarters of 

 the garden, making a dry drain along the middle 9 inches 

 wide, or more, covered with bricks or ftones. The walk, 

 when fmifhed, fhould have a gentle rife in the middle, in 

 order to throw the rain water toward the edges. 



Where the foil is a four wet clay, it will be neceffary to 

 throw- into the bottom of the border brick-bats covered with 

 lime rubbifh, or core from the fkreenings of lime ; then water 

 it, and when nearly dry ram it well, which will convert it 

 mto a hard folid furface, and prevent the roots of the trees 

 from penetrating the wet earth below. It will alfo ferve to 

 carry off the water to the drains. 



With regard to the choice of Peach Trees, the directions 

 already given for Apricots will ferve. They fhould be pro- 

 cured in the latter end of October, or beginning of November, 

 as foon as the leaf begins to fall ; and, if poffible, the ground 

 be ready beforehand. 



The earlier you go to the nnrfery the better, to mark and 

 take up the young trees ; for he that goes firft has the greater 

 choice. 



The ground, if new borders, fhould be well trenched to re- 

 ceive the trees ; if toiupply the places of others which have been 

 removed, or where trees have died, all the old roots fhould be 

 carefully takemout, and freih mould put in where the old was 

 taken away-; remembering to raife the new mould a proper 

 height above the old ; as it is a very great hurt to fruit trees, 

 when they are planted too deep : if they are not kept up 

 above the level of the old ground at firft, they feldom thrive 

 well. When the trees are planted, water the roots well to 



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