Of Propagating Fruit-trees* 3 t 
But if you have the liberty to chufe 
what Land you will for planting of Fruit- 
trees, then for the Cider-Fruit chufe a 
good warm light Rye-land : for the hea¬ 
vier , colder, and moifter Wheat-land is 
not fo good, the Cider being not io clear 
nor Vinous. 
If the Ground be very light and rich of 
it fel£ or fo made by improvement, feveral 
forts of Apple-trees, efpecially the Pippin , 
will befo apt to the Canker, that they will 
fearce ever be large Trees: Therefore a firm 
and ftrong Land is beft for Winter or long- 
Iafting-Fruit ; but for the ordinary Cider 
or Summer-Fruit,Land cannot be too light: 
The more it inclines to red-nets* the bet¬ 
ter. But ‘ ■ Mini'fi r i . k’ 
f . b ; . ... loo? { .; fo bill ’ 
When with due Judgment you would choofe a Rapinus. 
place 1 ' ; A> "■ 
Proper , wherein to raife a future Race, 
Let it he in the Sun 5 without 1 his Aid , 
The Ground Will languijh, and the Fruit will 
fade. 
If the Ground be too hot, dry, (hallow, Ame *i-\ 
or barren, raife the Land on broad Ridges, mem of 
that the middle of them may be about UnL 
twenty or thirty foot diftance* according 
