A Gentleman coming into the Poflefllon of a 
Landed Eftate, found an Orchard planted with 
many Apple-Trees, where it was fuppofed they 
had flood near an hundred Years,. It is true, 
that their Bodies were moft of them found, 
but very fmall and ftunted, by being planted on 
a high level Ground, and deeply in a red Clay 
Soil, which occafioned them to bear Fruit but 
feldom to Profit. This provoked the Gentle- 
man to flock many of them up, for planting 
others after a right Method in their Room. 
The like Proof I have in my own Ground, 
where my Soil in my home Clofe is a red Clay, 
lying about ten Foot thick on a Rock of Chalk, 
and under a Loamy Surface about ten Inches 
deep; here I have Apple and black improved 
Cherry-Trees growing, planted on the Grafs- 
Baulks, or Sides of my plowed Land, in Angle 
Rows. One of my Apple-Trees, by an igno- 
rant Fellow, was planted too deep about twen- 
ty Years ago ; others, by my Direction, were 
planted almoft on the Surface of the Ground. 
The Difference is, that the too deep planted Tree 
has not grown hardly half fo big as the others, 
nor does it bear Fruit like them ; for it is be- 
come ftunted, and gets more and more rnofly. 
I have alfo a black Kerroon Cherry-Tree that 
I really tranfplanted on the very Grafs-Ground, 
and, to fupply the Want of aFofs, or Hollow 
in the Earth to plant in, I covered its Roots 
with a Virgin-Mould, &c. as I (hall hereafter 
(hew, where I write on Planting ; which Tree 
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