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<eijpecially if thofe Heaps are mixed with fome 
Lime, are proper to mend it, and fo would be 
a Mixture of Cows or Oxens Dung. — But 
where the Plow can be work’d about the 
Roots of a Pear or Apple-Tree without wound- 
ing or hurting them, or if the Spade is duly 
imployed to dig and keep fuch a Compafs of 
Ground in a conftant Finenefs and Loofenefs of 
Tilth, I fay, that with this Hufbandry, and 
the Affiftance of fome of the aforefrid fertile 
Applications, a Fruit-Tree may be made to 
grow in half the ufual Time that Trees neg- 
lected grow in, which have none of this Af- 
fiftance given them. 
A Fear and Apple-Tree that bore four times 
more Fruit than the like Number of Juch Trees , 
in an uncultivated Orchard. — It hath been feen, 
that an Apple-Tree on a Butt-land, that is to 
fay, an Apple-Tree that grew on a Grafs- Baulk 
which parts plowed Lands, and whofe Roots 
had the Benefit of the Plow’s keeping the ad- 
jacent Earth in a fine Tilth, as well as the Ma- 
nure as was there laid to nourifh Corn-Crops, 
received fuch Nourifhment from both thefe, 
that the Apple-Tree bore more Apples than four 
fuch Trees in an Orchard would do.-- A Swan’s- 
Egg ftandard Pear-Tree that at this Time grows 
in a Hedge which inclofes a Coppice of Wood 
at Little Gaddefden in Hertfordfnre , and whofe 
Roots fhooting into the plowed Ground next 
to it, receives fuch a Benefit from the Plow- 
ing and Manuring of the fame, a« to increafe 
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