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dered fit to plant Pear or Apple-Trees on it to 
a great Advantage. This Drain- Plow is made 
without any Wheels, but of fuch Strength, that 
it is too expenfive to fend it far by Land-Car- 
riage. Therefore I fell its Model, made with 
Wood and Iron, about two Foot in Length, 
and with it fend its Dimenfions, and ample and 
plain Directions for any Plow- maker to make a 
compleat one by it ; as it was done in Devon - 
Jhire, by my fending fuch a Model to a wor- 
thy Perfon there in the Month of January \ 
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How to qualify poor Land, for caufng it the 
more to forward the Growth of Fruit-Trees.-—' 
Where the natural Soil is not good of itfelf, 
whether it be in Garden, Field, or Orchard, 
there it ought to be by Skill affifted and bet- 
tered ; at leafLways, for fuch a Compafs as the 
Roots of every Tree take up for fome Time, 
if not fo far round as they are ever like to ex-* 
tend themfelves. — Now this is to be done, by 
mixing fuch Manure with the Soil as bed fuits 
its Temper.— If the Soil be a Clay, or a Clay 
mixed with" Gravel, or a wet, heavy Land, hot 
Dung of Horfes well rotted, or the Dung of 
Poultry, or a Mixture of any Sort of Afhes or 
Sand with fuch Dung, is beft to mix with it to 
a due Temperament. — If the Soil be light, hol- 
low, or fandy Land, Marl, or Mud out of 
Ponds, Ditch or' reiver, or Shovelings of High- 
way Dirt, if they be not fandy, and be well 
mellowed by lying fome Time in Heaps, and 
efpecially 
