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0 / Probligating Fruit-trees. 
nient height, that you may plant your 
Tree on the top of it; and tjhen add good 
Mold about the Root, and dilute it with 
Water, as before is directed. Then level 
the Earth about the Tree, fothat it may 
not be too high to injure its bark, and fo 
that the water may rather fall towards,than 
from the Tree. t 
After you have placed your Tree to 
your Mind, and covered the Roots with 
good natural mould, Then take a Wheel¬ 
barrow full or two of Street dirt, or dirt 
tempered by the trampling of Cattel, more 
efpecially of hogs, and cover the loofe 
ground about the Tree, and pat it fmooth 
with the back of your Spade plaifter like 
inclining towards the Tree,this may be laid 
two or three inches thick, and in breadth 
two or three foot round from the tree, By 
w, ich means the loofe earth will be pre- 
kived moift, and the weeds prevented 
f i om too fudden a growth. This coat be¬ 
ing in imitation of broad Stone or planck 
which, laid round about a newly planted 
Tree, adds much to its thriving. 
If you plant Standards, and in an open 
place, it is convenient to ftake them the firft 
year, fothat yon be careful to prevent gal¬ 
ling them, by interpofing a fmall wifp of 
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