.236 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND' , 



The Spring after planting, if it prove dry, dig up fome turf, 

 and lay it round the ftem of the young trees with the grafly fide 

 downwards ; this, will keep the ground mold, and lave a deal 

 of watering:, if the trees have taken well, t ha s need not bet 

 repeated, as they will be out of danger the firft year. The 

 turf fhould be laid as far as you think the roots of the trees 

 extend ; and when it is rotted,,, it fhould be dug in, which 

 will be of great fervice to. them . 



Trees that are of very different fizes when full grown fhould 

 not be planted promifcuouily ; but, if the foil be properly 

 adapted, plant the larger in the back part or higher ground,, 

 or at the North ends of the rows, if they run nearly North 

 and South, and the others in fucceflion according to their 

 fize. Fruit-trees planted in this manner will have a fine effect 

 when, grown up.; but if they are planted promifcuoufly,. 

 they will not appear fo agreeable to the eye ; ^nd, befides,, 

 the fmaller trees will be fhaded by the larger, which will- 

 injure them, and fpoil the flavour of the fruit. 



Orchards fhould be dunged once in two or three years.. 

 The ftems of trees in thofe where cattle feed fhould be high, 

 enough to prevent their eating the lower branches ; and 

 fenced in fuch a manner as to prevent their; being barked, or. 

 injured, by the cattle rubbing againft them, particularly when 

 young ; which may be done, by triangles of wood, or the trees? 

 may be bulbed with thorns, &,c. The trees are to be pruned 

 and managed as already directed for Apples, Pears, Plums, 

 &C. &c. 



If the foil: be wet, it, mult be drained, as already directed, 

 for a garden.. When the furface of the, ground is wet, and. 

 has a little defcent, it may be formed into a kind of ridges, 

 by making a furrow, from one foot to two dsep> between- 



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