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face on and about them — — -Sheep in an Or- 
chard may be made to fertilize the Ground, 
and greatly contribute, by their Stale and 
Dung, to the Profperity of Fruit-Trees. 
The Southams Method of fupporting a?id fe- 
curing Apple-Trees , by banking them up at their 
Planting . — This is done, by throwing up a 
Bank a little wider than the Pit or Hole, which 
is to be made up about three Foot high, in a 
pyramidical Shape, for fecuring the Tree from 
the Wind, till it has taken fufficient Root, 
which will be in three Years Time. But we 
commonly take down half the Bank at two 
Years End, "the other at three Years End; cb- 
ierving always, at the Planting of the Tree, the 
making of a Trench round the Bank; and be- 
fore the Bank is broken down, this Trench 
fhould be filled with Furze, which fhould be 
covered by the Mould of the broken Bank ; 
for, by fo doing, it will prepare and mellow 
that Part of the Ground that the young Shoots 
are next to fhcot into, and which ferves for the 
firfl Prefiing after Planting, It is alfo farther 
to be obferved, that where this Method is put 
in Practice, no other Cattle than Sheep fhould 
be admitted into the Orchard till the Trees are 
four or five Years old, and then only at proper 
Seafons. 
How an Orchard kept under Tillage caufes 
Apple-Trees to grow as faft again as other wife 
they would*— This is lo well underflood, and 
pradtifed, particularly in Kent } that it is a plea- 
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