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make your rankes crofle-wife one from another halfe a foot, 
thereabouts, aridy^' mufl: alio fee' that there be of good dung nw*. 
deep and lower ihen: ye do fet your trees, to comfort the faid roots 
withall. ' f r • I 
Howyou ought to jet you/' trees in rankle, 
Y e (liall fet your finall young trees in rankes, halfe a lai'ge foot 
one from another ; . and let them be covered as y t do fet them, 
with.good fat earth .ill over the roots. 
Heifftomak^thejjjce from- one ranke to another, 
Y e fhall leave between your rankes, from one rankc to anothe**,- 
one foot, or thei^bouts, fo that ye may paife between every 
ranke for to denfe t^m if need requhe, and alfo to graffc any part 
or parcell thereof when time (hall be niieet. But ye mufl: note, In 
making thus your rankes, ye lhail make as many allies as rankes. 
Andifyethinke itnot^oodto make fo many allies, then divide 
thole intb ‘quarter j of five foot broad, or thereabouts, and make 
and fet four rankes (in each quarter of the fame) one foot from’ 
another, as ye ufeto fet great Cabbage. And as Toon after as ye 
have let tlicm' in rankes-and good ordei-yas is aforefaid, then ihall' 
ye cut off all thtf fets even by the ground. But in thus doing, fee 
that ye do’not pluekup or loofc the earth which is about tliem ; or 
if yc .will, y e may^eiit^thefti- before yc do let them in rankes *, If ye 
do fo, fee that ye let them in fucli good order, and even with the 
earth, as is aforefaid, And it fhall fuffice alfo to make your rankes 
as ye (hall fee caufe. And looke^thac ye furnilh the earth all over 
withgooddiing,; without mingling of it in theearch, 'nor yet to 
cover thc'faid pl^tsnvithaU;. but fffro wed betwixt : andye muft 
alfoiook well to>thedehling of weeds, giafle, of other fuch things 
which will bea hurt to tlie growth of the Plants • 
HoVfiowattrVlanU when they wax dry . ' 
I T Ihall be good to water them when the time is dry in the firft 
year ; Then when they have put forth new Cions, leave no 
more growing but that Cion which is the pincipall and faireft, up- 
on every flock one : all the other cut off hard by the fto^'k : and 
ever as there do grow fmall twigs about the^ftock, ye Ihall (iu the 
4fy-e then flick by «Ycry ]|)knt^ 4.,pmf&y W«indt , ^ind- fo-kiKd;;|:b.eni. 
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