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Of Propagating Fruit-trees. 
by them, may you plant Cherry-trees, Plum- 
trees , and fuch-like; and next unto them 
Fillerds. Currants , Goofeberries , &c. lb 
that if ever the greater Trees fpread far, 
by that time the lelfer may be decayed: 
if thole do not, thele may be renewed 
that no part of the Plot may be fruitlels. 
In cafe any Tree happen to decay, ha¬ 
ving ftood long in that place, lo that its 
Roots have attracted and exhaufted the 
ftrength of the Earth appropriate to that 
Species of Fruit; In the room of fuch 
Trees remember to plant one of another 
Species, as an Apple-tree in the room of a 
decayed Cherry , & Jsc de ceteris ; by 
which means the Roots of the latter Tree 
lhall find new matter to maintain their 
Plant, that was not exhaufted by the for¬ 
mer ; mod Land being weary in time of 
one Plant. 
After your Trees are planted, if you of pruning 
defign them for dwarf or Ipreading Trees, Trtrw * 
then as they fpring, and are apt to mount 
upwards, with the Nails of your fingers 
may you nip off the tops of the afpiring 
Branches; which makes the fide-boughs 
Ipread the better, checks the Sap, and 
thereby caules the Tree to Fruftifie the 
fooner, and the better. This way ofpru- 
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