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fn Counter-hedges over-againft Walls, the Earth muff 
be ft irt’d four times in a Year, the breadth of fi* foot, 
in March and Oftoher, to fome depth, but in May and 
July the depth of half a Spade, ci>t only to kill the 
Weeds, and to keep fhort the Mould, that it may, be 
capable of receiving the Rain in Summer. 
Rut in your great Plantations, where Beafts are 
paftur’d, you muff jfir the Earth four foot wide a- 
bout the Stem of each Tree four times a Year: But 
where Beafts do not come, the Ground muff be all 
ploughed, or digged in fuch places where the Plough 
cannot pais, and Town with Wheat or Oats each o- 
ther Year, and you muff take care to dung ic well that 
Year, when it is to be Town with Wheat, and roftir 
it four times in theYcar wherein it lies fallow : This 
Method you muff continue until the Trees be grow n 
fo large that their Shadow hinders the growing of the 
Corn ; then the Tillage of the whole may be omitted, 
and only ufed about the Foot of the Tree, according 
as need requires. The often ftirring of the Ground 
hath this Advantage, that ic hinders R icher Grounds 
from chapping, and always keeps thofe frefh that are 
light and Tandy. 
In Plantations where Trees ffand at the diflance 
of 8 or io Fathoms, fo placed becaufe the Trees al- 
ways may be till’d and fowm, you need take no further 
Care for that which is ufed about ordinary Tillage, 
but only let fuch as plough them take heed th,at the 
Plough hurt not the Trees by coming too near them. 
He that wmuld order well the Dwaif-lfanders, 
muff Ifir all the Ground about them 4 times a Year 
with a Spade or a Pick-ax, not fowing any Grain up- 
<- n it, fare only in the midff of the Alleys, where it 
may be Town, and nearer the Trees, at the diflance of 
four or five foot from them, may be made Beds of 
Stra wherries. and other Sa Had- herbs ; for other Herbs 
and Flowers being planted in the Tillage above their 
Roo'-s, do injure the Trees, except only Anemones 
and RanrsncufaS) which you may fetat the Foot of the 
Wall, 
