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find the more nourifhmenr, and be water’d more plen- 
tifully with the Rain all the Summer. Then the 
Roots, after this, muft be covered with good Mould 
foft and light, mixed~with fome other Mould from a 
Bed rotted throughly, iffuch can be had; for this 
maketh them put forth fibrous Roots in greater quan- 
tity. You muft alfo be careful to furnifh them well 
with Mould, fo as behind the Roots no void fpaCe 
may remain : And therefore, after they are covered 
with Earth, you muft lift up the Tree a little, and 
lhake it with your hand, that the Mould,being (hort 
and moveable, may flip in between the Roots to fill 
up all the Holes. 
Now obferve in planting that you fink not the 
Trees into the Ground more than 6 inches, for the 
Earth being always above better than downwards, 
the Roots find there the more nourifhment, and are 
not fo fubjeft to be Rotted by too much moifture ; 
Befides, it being near the Surface of the Earth, they 
are more fenfible of the Sun’s Heat, and alfo they re- 
ceive advantage from the fmall Rain and Dews which 
fall in Summer ; whereas on the contrary, when the 
Roots are funk too deep, they are never refrefhed by 
thofe Summer Rains which are neither of Force nor 
Continuance enough to pierce into the Earth more 
than a good half foot ; fo that the Earth beneath har- 
dens and drys about the Roots, and affords them no 
more Nourifhment : From hence you may eafily 
conje&ure, that the raoft Ordinary caufe that makes 
Trees grow Yellow, is occafion’d by their being fet 
toe deep in the Ground. 
But now feeing the Trees fo planted near the Sur- 
face of the Earth, may for the Two firft Years fuffer 
from the great^Heat of the Sun, having their Roots 
yet too tender to refift it, you muft therefore cover 
them by making a Bank of ordinary Mould a foot 
high above them, and four foot wide round about the 
Stem, the top whereof lay plain, that the Water may 
ftop there the better, ^nd fink to the foot of theTree, 
further., 
