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are afterwards not to be repair’d, it being impoflible 
to fearch under the Root of a Tree, or bring any Soil 
there when once it is planted ; for this Reafon it is, 
that to prepare the Earth well for great Plants, the 
holes mu ft be open’d greater or left, according as the 
Ground has need of more or left being amended. In 
the richeft Soils let them be mad? fix foot fquare, 
and if for Pear-Tree?, dig them two foot deep,' for 
Apple-Trees but one foot ; for if the holes are made 
deeper, the Roots will follow the good Mould, and 
defcend to the bottom ; but if it is ftraitned, and 
findeth not Nourifhment fufficient, they languifb ; 
whereas, were they planted very high, and their 
Roots.fpread upon the Surface of the Earth, which is 
always the beft, they profit with pleafure, and bring 
forth larger Fruit, and better nourilh’d. 
The Planter, in digging thefe holes, will find that 
all the Earth taken out of them is not equally good, 
he muft therefore take the beft, which is always the 
uppermoft, not-only where Gravel, or Sand, or Stone 
lie, near the Sword, but alfo in the beft Ground, 
becaufe the deeper Earth (for want of Rain, and the 
Influence of the Sun) are as it were incapable of 
Production, fo that you muft not put it in again, for 
it would be of no life. 
And if a Planter for this Reafon would have Pa- 
tience to leave open theii; holes one Year, the Earth 
would certainly become the better, and the Earth 
taken out of them (by the Influence of the Sun) 
would be more capable of Production. 
Thefe holes thus digg’d, before you fill them, work 
the bottom well, and then rut i-n the Mould, a foot 
depth, and upon thatfpread half a foot of rotten or 
chopt Dung, which you muft work together with the 
Mould two or three times over, till they are weft 
mix’d, by reafon that if the Dung (hould remain 
together, it would grow hot, and fpoil the Roots' of 
the Trees; therefore you*fnuft put in a ftcond Bed 
©f Earth, of the fame depth as the lirfr, and half- a 
