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bage of Conyes, &c. and this will caufe that they will not 
meddle With your trees fb long as the fmell thereofremains, 
ahb feme ufe Lime,being firft flack’d, and being pretty thick, 
dawb their trees of a convenient height .-this muft be renew¬ 
ed as you fee caufe. 
To prevent the inconvenience of great and ftrong winds, 
which oft occafion the lofs of much fruit, as alfb the breaking 
offbme aftns or boughs of your trees 5 the beft prevention 
is to plant fome forts of trees as may break the violence of 
the wind from your Orchard, yet at fuch adiftance, as they 
may not prove a worfe inconvenience than the wind, either 
by over-hanging, or hindring the Sun too much from your 
Orchard, or by the running of their root amongft your fruit- 
trees,which in time they may do, and hinder them of much 
neceflary nourifhment 3 fome have ufed divers forts of 
Plumbs, fome Cherries either red or black, which indeed 
will grow to a great ftature. I have mentioned divers forts, 
which may ferve for fuch a purpofe,as you may read toward 
the begining of the book, only you are to confider which are 
of a large growing nature, and which not, and accordingly 
to plant them at a fit and convenient diftance. 
There are fome other Cafoalties fcmptimes happening to 
fruit, as Blaftings, Frofts, &c. which none but the Provi¬ 
dent Hand of God can effe&ually prevent3 only there is a 
means,that is,and may beufed,and often to good purpofe,for 
fome forts of early bloffoming, and tender fruits that grow 
againft walls, as Apricocks, &c. the which in fome years, 
and alfb in fome warm natur'd grounds, and very warm 
fituated places, do blow very early, and are oft overtaken 
with Frofts, and come to nothing, the which mifoarriage to 
prevent, you may hang fome Bafie-matts, or Canvas,or the 
like before them, from the time of their firft beginning to 
bloffom,until they are well knit or fet, and for fome time af¬ 
ter, if you foe occafion, opening or uncovering them every 
day,in cafe the weather be mild 3 but open them not too 
early 
