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ing away fome off the worft deferving trees, whereby your 
others may become more fruitful,or at leaft better tafted fruit, 
(and Mofs lefs apt to increafe) by having more benefit of the 
comforting and frudifying vertueofthe Sun and Air. If the 
caufe of the Mofs on your Trees be the drynefsorbarrennefs 
of the ground,then befidesfcraping it off, you may help your 
tree by opening the ground at a good diftance about your 
Tree,and' lay amongft the feeding roots, at leaft as many as 
you meet with, fome good fhort lome or the forowring of 
Ponds or ditches, which will keep moyfture, and nourifh 
your tree better,and fometimes prevent the falling and worm¬ 
eating of fruit, which is incident to dry and barren grounds. 
Take notice, that notwitlfffihding thefe directions are very 
good being feafonably and futably performed or made ufe of, 
yet if your tree bear fruit competently and good according 
toits kind,I would advife you to forbear tampering with it, 
either by opening or pruning, unlefs in cafe of neceffity,as in 
the cafe of dead, cankered, broken, or galling-boughs, 
mifleltow, and the Mofs, which ought to be done with care, 
left you fpoil or break off the bearing buds, anddifappoint 
your felf of fruit. 
The Canker is as bad a mifchief as any that happens to 
trees, but efpecially to young trees, which being finall, are 
eaten or tainted round before one is aware of it: therefore 
if your fruit be of fuch a kind as is fubjed to canker, as of a 
truth fome are more than other, which makes it clear, that 
the caufe is in it felf in a great meafure,but yet very much fur¬ 
thered when it happens on a ground which doth feed that 
fharp humour, which may be the caufe j in fuch a cafe it is 
hard curing. We fee amongft men fome Conftitutions are 
more fubjed to Itching,or breaking out,occafioned by fome 
fharp or virulent humours which is either more oriels furthe¬ 
red, as they delight or feed on fuch kind of diet, or drink 
fuch liquors as feed that humour.Sometimes too deep plant¬ 
ing caufeth trees to packer and blaft on the top, and in fome 
that are very fubjedto it, a little bruife,and fometimes unfea- 
fonable pruning. Thu, 
