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wife pretty ftore of Sea-coal allies, well mingled with your 
dung or mould: butthefe'afhes of themfelves are very dry and 
barren, but very ufeful being mingled with any cold or wet 
ground,alfo fmall ruddifh Chalk,and Sand well mingled with 
good earth. 
Alfo if your ground be very wet, then you are to make 
forne convenient Dreins of fuch a depth as may be to pur- 
pofe,and carry away all that offenfive moifture to fome Ditch 
or Pond, where it may be ufeful, or at leaf! not offenfive : 
If your Dreins or Trenches be made of a confiderable depth, 
at leaft fome principal ones, it will deftroy Rufhes,and fome 
other offenfive plants that are naturally fed by the excels of 
moifture 5 thefe Dreins or Trenches, if you are not willing 
to be at the coft ofBrickwork, &c. to convey the water un¬ 
der ground,then you may fill them up with great ftones,lay¬ 
ing them in fuch manner for hollownefs, as notwithftand- 
ing there may be a fufficient paflage for the water tod rein or 
pafs away as aforefaid ,you may firft upon the ftones lay fome 
courfe gravel,and then cover them level as you fee caufe, by 
this means your over moift ground may be made more apt for 
to plant Fruit-trees upon, or other Garden herbage, &c. 
Of the Ordering or Husbanding of thoje Fruit-Trees that Jiand 
at large in Standards, as Apples and Pears , &c. 
Y Our beft way is not to prune them either much or of¬ 
ten,ifyou love fruit more than a tree to thrive in wood, 
and therefore I would advife you whilft your Tree is young, 
to endeavour to bring it into a handfome fhape and Order, 
and when it comes to bear fruit, forbear pruning, unlefs in 
cafe of broken, or fuch boughs as grow crofs,and lye galling 
or fretting others 5 but in cafe your trees, or any of them are 
hide-bound,and thereupon do not {hoot and thrive, then you 
are to make ufeofthe former inftru&ions, by pruning both 
top and root,and amending the earth if it be faulty 5 bat fome- 
times, only cutting off fome of the branches, or topping 
your 
