c / be ordering of the Orchard. 549 
wantof skill, or elfc fuch armes or branches as are broken off clofe,or fliucci from the 
body of the tree : fortherainc beating and falling into fuch a place, will in (liorttime 
rotte y owr tree, or put it indanger, befidesthe deformity. Some vfe to fill vp fuch an 
hole with well tempered clay, and tacke a cloth or a peece of leather ouer it vntill it be 
recouered, andthisisalfonotamifle. Your young trees, if theyftandin anie good 
ground , will bee plentifull enough in (hooting forth branches 5 bee carefull therefore 
if they growe too thickc, that you ptuine away fuch as gtowe too clofe (and will, if 
they be fuf&red, fpoile one another) as they may be belt (pared, that fo the funr,e,ayre, 
and raine may haue free accede to all your branches , which will make ehem beare the 
more plentifully , and ripenthetnthc l'ooner and the more kindly. If anie boughes 
growe at the toppe too high, cut them alfb away, that your trees may rather fpread 
then growe too high. And fo likewifc for the vnder boughes, or anie other that by 
the weight offruit fall or hang downc, cut them off atthehalfe, and they will after- 
wards rifeand (hoote vpwards. You (hall obferue, that at alltbofe places whereanie 
branchcshauebeencutaway, the fappe will cuer bee teadieto put forth : iftherefore 
you would haue no m otc branches rife from that place , rubbe off or nippe off fuch 
buddes as are not to your miade, when they are new lhor : and thus you may keepyour 
trees in good order with a little paines, afeoryouhaue thuspruined and drefled them. 
One other thing I would aduertife you of, and that is how to preferue a fainting or de- 
caying tree which is re adie to perilfi, if it be not gone too farre or part cure, take a good 
quantitie of oxe or horfe bloud , mire therewith a reafonable quantitie of Iheepe or pi- 
geons dung, which being laid to the roote, will by the often raiues and much watering 
recoueritfelfe, if there bee anie po(fibilitiej but this mufl bee done in lanuarie or Fe- 
bruarie at the furcheft . 
Chap. VIII. 
V inert ft her ebfernothns to be remembred in the welt 
keeping of on Orebord, 
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T Here be diuerS other things to be mentioned, whereof care muft be had, either 
to doc or auoide, which Ithinke fit in this Chapter promifeuoufly to fet downy 
that there may be nothing wanting to furnifli you with fufficienc knowledge of 
the care, paines, and cafualtiesthat befall an Orchard : fot it hath many enemies , and 
euery one laboureth as much as in them lye, to fpoile you of your pleafure, or profit, or 
both , which muft bee both fpeedily and carefully preuented and helped , and they are 
thefe : Mode, Caterpillars, Ants, Earwigs, Snailes, Moalcs, and Birds. If Mode begin 
to ouergrowe your trees, lookc to it betimes, left it make your trees barren : Some vfe to 
hacke,and cro(Tehacke,or cut the barkeof the bodies of their trees, to caufe it fall a way j 
but I fearc it may endanger your trees.Others do either rubbe it off with a haire cloth 
or with a long peece of wood formed like* knife, at the end of a long fticke or pole' 
which if it bee vfed cauteloufly without hutting the buds, I like better. Caterpillars* 
fomc fmoake t hem with burning wet ftra we or hay , or fuch like ftuffe vnder the trees - 
but I doe not greatly like of that way : others cut off the boughes whereon they breed* 
and tread them vnder their feete, but that will fpoile too manic branches; and fome 
kill them with their hands : but fome doc vfe a newdeuifed way, that is, a pompe made 
of latcin or tin, fpout falhion, which being fet in a tubbe of water vnder or neare your 
trees, they will caufe the water to rife through it with fuch a force, and through the 
branches, that it will walk them off quickly. TodeftroyAnts,thateaccyour fruitbe- 
fore and when it is ripe, fome vfe to annoint the bodies of their trees with tarre, that 
they may not crecpe vp on the branches ; but if that doe not helpe, or you Will not vfc 
it, you muft be carefull to finde out their hill, and turne it vp , pouring in fealding wa- 
ter, either in Summer, but efpecially if you can in Winter , and that will furefy deftroy 
them. I haue fpoken of Eat wigs in thefirft part of this worke, entreating of the annoy- 
ances of Gillofiowers , and therefore Iicferrc you thereunto : yet one way taorel 
will 
