102 -TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



Peaches. [See alfo Plate VIII.] This will prevent them 

 from looking im lightly, and fave them from the fury of the 

 Autumnal and Winter winds. 



The tree above-mentioned had a decayed rotten root, the 

 dead part of which I cut all away, till I came to the found 

 wood. Whenever the trunk is hollow, you muft follow it un- 

 der ground till you have cut out all the decayed parts and 

 rotten roots ; otherwife you will lofe the tree. 



By proceeding according to the foregoing directions, the 

 root will be renewed, while the tree is forming a fine handfome 

 head. In the mean-time trench your borders, taking up all 

 the old roots, and add fome frelh mould to them, if you can 

 conveniently get it ; if you cannot, remove all the four mould 

 that is about the roots of the trees, and put in fome taken 

 from the border, at a diftance from the wall ; always remem- 

 bering to lay the top fpit next to the roots of the trees ; alfo, 

 mix fome vegetable mould, from the Melon and Cucumber 

 beds, with rotten leaves, as a manure for the borders. 



1 have headed down many trees that had not this prepara- 

 tion ; and yet they throve very well, but did not fend forth 

 fuch fine roots and fhoots as thofe that were fo prepared. 



If the above directions be followed, you will get more Pears 

 in three or four years than you can in twenty-five years by 

 planting young trees, and pruning and managing them in 

 the common way. 



If you fhould find, that, before the Pears arrive at half 

 their natural fize, they get ftunted, after cold blighting 

 winds, and frofty nights (fuch as we have had for feveral 

 years paft in the months of June and July), I would recom- 

 mend a new operation to be performed when the weather 

 begins to grow mild. 



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