T The Englijh Gardner. 
ground as well as for the former. A courfe Gravel is altoge¬ 
ther unfit for this employment,except you change the nature 
of it, by railing it of filch a thicknefs as may make it for your 
purpofo with any fort of Earth which is apt to be wrought 
upon, and may yield nourifhment to what yoti plant there¬ 
on. Alfo if your ground be very dony, your bed way will 
be to dig and pick out what ftones you can, at lead the big- 
geft, and to make a fupply either of Dung or Earth, that you 
may have at lead a full Spit deep of Earth to work upon (the 
more the better.) Other forts of courfe grounds there are, 
that by labour and cod may be made capable of bringing 
forth Trees to good purpofo. But I forbear to fpeak fur¬ 
ther of them at prefont, only take notice, that the bed forts 
ef ground for your purpofe, to plant, of make Gardens up¬ 
on, are a fine fandy Loam, or a fat Sand, or a fhort brittle 
Loam, or Brick-earth, or any good thorow Mould, be the 
colour what it will. The truth is, every man cannot have 
what is bed for his purpofo, and therefore mud endeavour 
to fupply the defe£t with good Husbandry. 
Of preparing the Ground, and [owing the Kernels and Stones of 
Fruit, either of Pears, Apples, or Crabs, &c. 
H Aving made choice of a piece of ground, whereon to 
raifo your Stocks, the fird thing you are to do is to 
dig it very exa&ly, or dock it with a Mattax, if occafion 
require, and cleanfo it diligently from all roots, weeds and 
ftones, that may hinder the thriving of your Stocks, efpeci- 
ally from Couch or Twitch-graft, Nettle, or any other offen- 
five Weeds that are not eafily deftroyed by ordinary hand- 
weeding. But if it be a ground that hath been very much 
over-run-with bad weeds,as Twitch-grafs,c^r. it will be your 
beft way to dig it over a fecond time before you fow it, for 
it is a very hard thing to cleanfo foch a ground with once 
digging. Your ground being digged and cleanfod, and well 
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