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two ranks, in your Allies in Gardens, ye muftdcvife for to propor- 
tion it after the largenelle of your faicl Allies. For to plant orfetJ 
eager or lower Chery trees, this fpace Ikall be fuflicient enough the 
one from the other, that is, of ten or twelve foot, and therefore if 
you mike of great or large Allies in your Garden, as of ten foot 
wide, or thereabouts, they lhall come well to pafle, and lhall bee 
fufficient to plant your trees, of nine or ten foot fpace : and for the 
other lefier forts of trees, as of Quince trees, Figge trees, Nut trees, 
and fuch like, which be not commonly planted, but inoncranke 
together. 
Ordering your trees, 
W Hen that ye plant or fee rankes, or every kinde of trees to- 
gether, ye ffiall fet or plant the fmallelt towards the 
$un, and the greateft in the (hade, that they may not annoy or hurt 
the fmall, nor the fmall the great* Alfo whenfoever ye will plane 
or fet Peare trees, and Plum trees ( in anyplace) the one with 
another, better it were to fet the Plum trees next the Sunne> for the 
Peares will dure better iii the fliadc. Alfo ye muft underftand,when 
ye fet or plant any ranks of trees together, ye muft have more fpace 
be twixt your rankes and trees, ( then when ye fet but one ranke ) 
that they may have room fufficient on every lide. 
Ye ffiall alfo fcarcely fet or plantPearetrces, or Apple trees, or 
other great Tree.', upon dead or Moffie barren ground uiiftirred , 
for they increafe the; eon to no purpofe. But other lefler trees very 
well may grow, as Plum trees, and fuch like ; now when all the 
faid things above be confidered, ye ffiall make your holes accor- 
ding to the fpace that ffiall be tetjuired of every tree that ye ffiall 
plant or At, and alfo the place meet for the dame fo much as ye 
may conyeo'cnt, ye ffiall make your holes large enoughj for ye muft 
fupppfe the tree ye doe fet, hath not the halfe of his roots he ffiall 
havsffiereafcer, therefore ye nuffihelpe him and give him of good 
Fat earth, ( or dung ) all about the roots when as yc plant him. 
And if any of the fams*roots be too long, and bruifed and hurt, ye 
ffiall cut them cleane off Hope wife, fo that the upper fide of each 
root fo cut, may be Ion geft in fet ting, and for the fmall roots 
wh’ch come forth all about thereof,ye may not cut them off as the 
great roots. 
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