The Englifb Gardner . 
foot of the tree, this Husbandry may be to good purpole, as 
alio for Cherries,and Plumbs, which ulually are pretty full of 
feeding root nigh home, if not very old: I lay to fiich, this 
Husbandry may contribute to the thriving,and alfb the bear¬ 
ing of the fairer fruit, if not tiled too often. 
If your Trees be fubjeft to Mols, the which is incident 
to treesthat grow on cold clay grounds,as alio wet grounds, 
and likewife to trees upon lome forts of dry grounds, but 
the kind of Mols is much differing, for that on the cold 
and moyft grounds being a long fhaggy Mols, the other a 
dry fcurfie Mols, both are enemies to your Trees, and very 
unhandlbm,and therefore worth the labour to cleanle them, 
if your Trees ftand too thick, or nigh together, it is lb mnch 
the worle, for the more Air and Sun they have, the lels the 
Mols doth encreale, and the ground hath the more benefit 
from the Sun-beams to warm and quicken it 5 if you find your 
ground to be over-wet,ule theforfoerlnftru&ions of Dreins, 
to make ule of fuch kind of foylas is of a warming and com¬ 
forting nature, allbto fcrape or rub off the Mols as much as 
you can with an Iron tool, made in fhape like a Howe, or 
Dough-rake, made alittle hollow on each fide, the better to 
anfiwer the feveral fhapes or fizes of boughs that are to be 
Mofled,it is to have a convenient flail or handle,rather fhort 
than long,except you ftand on the ground to do your work j 
the moft convenient fealbn for this work is in the. Winter, 
when the Mofs is fbmething moyft, defer it not too late, or 
nigh the lpring,left you fpoil too many blolfom-buds .which 
then grow gole and. brittle, but i£> as fometimes I have 
feen that the Mols is fo much and long., that it even fmothers 
the branches,and conlequently hinders the bearing of fruit,& 
feems an endlels Labour to Mols it,then your fiireft way is to 
‘‘prune off the greateft part of the head, and Mols the reft, or 
to take off all its head, and your tree will llioot and become 
as it were young again,and do fervice^ and in cafe your plan¬ 
tation be too thick, which in cold Clay grounds occafions 
Mols to increafe the fafter, you are to mend that fault by tak- 
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