The Englijh Gardner. 55 
about your Tree,and if your Tree be old, and of lotig land¬ 
ing, you are to open it at a farther diftance,that you may be- 
flow your coft mod where the mod and youngefc roots or 
feeders are from whence your tree receives its principalnour- 
ifhment 5 and not only dole to the body of your Tree, as is 
ufually practifed to little or no purpofe,in Trees that are well 
grown,and fetch their nourifhmentat a greater diftance: and 
having opened the ground, you are to cut the ends of all 
fuch roots as you meet with, and then to put in fbme good 
earth, either of good fliort lome, or other hearty earth, to 
and amongft the roots, fpreading them and inclining them ra¬ 
ther fnallowthan deep : and in cafe you ufe dung, your bed 
way is not to lay it very deep, neither next the roots of your 
Trees,but put fbme earth between the roots and your dung, 
whether you lay your dung above or beneath the roots,and 
then level up your ground again 3 and if to this you do but 
prune your Trees a little, as youfee caufe, you fhall not fail 
to have a thriving Tree. 
If the earth be of too cold and clung a nature, the which 
is not very pleafing to many tender Fruits, often caufingitto 
rot on the Tree, or often to want that good relifh which is 
proper to your Fruit, or not to ripen kindly according to its 
nature and feafbn, if your Tree ftand too deep in fuch na- 
tured ground, it is not eafily helped without taking up and 
new planting both fhalloweiymd mending the ground with 
a more warm and better natured earth , but if you may not 
take up your Tree,as being too old, you fhall open the ground 
until you come to the roots, the which you are to raife, at 
leaft good part of them, and cut the ends, and lay them as 
fhallow as you may conveniently, covering them with fbme 
good natured earth ^as for thofe thatroot more fhallow,they 
are more eafily and finely cured by the fame means,either by 
taking away of the bad earth for fome reafbnablecompafs,or 
at leaft by mingling it with fbme very good earth, veryrot- 
tendung, or fbme Lime-rubbifh of old walls, &c .whichis ex¬ 
ceeding good to mingle with any cold-natut’d earth,fb like- 
