T lanting mid Graffing. 4 , 
Of the Soyle 
TF your g ound be barren(for fome are forced to make an Orchard 
1 of bayen ground ) make a pit three quarters deep, and two yards 
wide and round in fnch places where you would fa your treesf and 
fill the fame with fat, pure, and mellow earth,one whole foot higher 
then your Soyl^ and therein fet your Planu For who is able to ma- 
nure an whole Orchard plot, if it be barren ? But if you determine 
to manure the whole fite, this IS your way:Digge a trench halfe a 
yard dcepe, all along the lower, (if there be a lower) fide of your 
Orchard plot, calling up all the earth on the inner fide, and fill the 
fame vwth a good fhort, hot, and tender mucke, and make luch a- 
nother 1 rench, and fill the fame as the firll, and fo the third, and 
10 throughout your ground. And by this meanes your plot /hall be 
fertile for your life. But be furc you fet your trees, neither in dung 
nor barren earths ° 
* Your ground mull be plaine, that it may receive and keepc moy- 
iJ fturc, not onely the Raine falling thereon, but alfo water call upon 
?! it,ordercendingfrom higher ground by Sluces, Conduits, &c. For 
I account moylku e in Summer very necdfull in the foyle of Tree?, 
and drought in Winter, Provided that the ground neither be boggy, 
a Bor the inundation be part 24, hours at any time, and but twice in 
i the whole Summer, end lb oft in Winter, Therefore if your plotbe 
l^a^anke, or have a delcent, make trenches by degrees, Allyes, 
Walkes, and fuch like, fo as the water may be Hayed from paflage. 
’ And if too much water be any hindcrance to your walkes ( for dne 
, walkes do well become an Orchard^ an Orchard them:) raife your 
walkes with earth firll,8t then with Hones, as big asWalnutsiand laft- 
ly with gravel. In Summer you need not doubt too much water from 
heaveijjcither to hurt the health of your bodyj or of your trees. And if 
■ overflowing moleH you after one day, avoid it thenby deep trenching, 
Graffe alfo is thoiighr nccdfoll for moyfture, fo you let it not touch the roots of 
i • k)r it will breed moffe, and the boall of your tree necr the earth would 
nave the comfort of the fun and ayre. n<i%. 
