The Englifb Gardner . 
planting fpread the roots, and let your Tree ftand asfhallow 
as you may conveniently,and in cafe any roots do incline too 
much downward, then you may give them a little plafh, and 
lay them fe) as to fpread near the upper cruft of the ground, 
which isufeally the belt, and Trees (as I faid formerly) re¬ 
ceive fpeedieft vertue and nouriflament-both from the Sun 
and (howers, only you are to have a little care of them the 
firft year, in cafe of a dry fpring or Summer, and in fuch a 
cafe it will be well worth your labour to lay a little Horfe- 
litter or the like fluff, round about your Tree, the compafs 
of the root, and in fo doing one watering will be better than 
two or three without it 5 and as for flaking your trees,I would 
never advife you to do it, if they will ftand ftraight and 
handfom without it, efpecially after the firft year, unlefs 
(as I faid) it be to make a crooked Tree grow ftraight, for 
cafe the head be too weighty for the root, which is a fault 
and would be mended ;but fee your flakes be ftraight,or in 
I have known handfome Trees fpoild with crooked flakes ; 
alfo be careful to tye your tree clofe and tite,with feme Ofieb 
or Willow twigs,or the like,left by being too flack the wind 
caufe your flake to fret or gall your Tree, which dothfome- 
times caufe it to canker in that place; your beft way is tore- 
new your tyes twice in the growing time ofthe year, if your 
Tree be in a thriving condition,left your tyes fhould make a 
fault, and occafion your Tree to break off in that place; you 
may put a little Hay, or the like, between the flake and the 
Tree, before you tye them, there can be no harm in 
that. 
The next thing to be confidered is the feafon when this 
work of planting is to be performed,the which I have fuffici- 
ently fpoketo already,in that place where I fpake ofplanting 
out ofYoung flocks,yet notwithftanding I will here repeat it 
again with a little addition: and therefore know that it is good 
planting of all forts of Fruit-bearing Trees,and others, both 
for plea fere or profit, whofe leaves fall in the Winter, from 
the beginningof October^ (and fometimesfooncr, as the year 
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