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Show Or, dn Appendix concerning Fruit- Trees, &c. POMONA: harfh that there isnothing more fafe from plunder, when even a Swine will not take themin his mouth. But thus likewife would the abundance preferve thefe Fruits, as we fee it does in Nor- mandy. CHAP. V. Of the Place azd Order. y A 7E do ferioufly prefer a very wild Orchard,as mainly intended for the publick utility, and to our parpofé of obliging the People, as witha {peedy Plantation yielding ftore for Cider : Uponthisitisthat we dofo frequently inculcate, howwell they thrive upon Arable, whilft the continuing it fo accelerates the growth in almoft halfthe time : And ifthe Arable can befo levell'd (ascommonly wefee it for Barly-land) then without detriment it, may aflume the Ornamentof ¢yrws, and flourifh in the Quincunx. fince both the Pablick and the Poor (whatever the clamair is), aré advantaged by fuch Exclofures, as Tufer in his old Rhimes, and all indifferent obfervers apprehend with good reafon. True indeed itis, That all Landis notfit for Orcharding, fo ag even where to form jutt Inclofures,being either toosballow and dry, or too met andflerving : But this (faith the judicious M* Buckland) we may aver, That there are few Parifhes, er Hamlets iz England where there are notfone fat and deep Headlands capable. of Rows of Trees; and that (as hath been faid) the raifed. Banks of all Ioclofures generally by the advantage of the depth, fatnefs, and health of their Monld, yicldready opportunity for planting 5 (yea, and in many Countrys multitudes of Crab-ftocks/it to be grafted 5 ) in _mbich latter (faith be) I havefrequently obferved very goodly Fruit- bearing Trees, when inthefamefoil Trees iz Orchards have been poor and worth nothing. Toconclude, If the foil be very badand unkind, any other Fruit (whichit may morefreely yield without requiring much depth, and lefs Sua) may be planted inftead of Apples. If it befhallow Land, or muft berais‘d with high Hidges, then "tis neceflary to have more regard of planting on the tops of thofe eminencies, and to excufe the unavoydable breach of the decu(fis, as my Lord Verulam excufeth the defect of our humane phanfies in the ConfteWations, which obey the Ommipotent order rather than ours : Addtothis the rigour of the Royal Society, which approves more of plainuefs and ufefulnefs, than of wicenefs and curiofity 5 whiles many putting themfelves tothe vaft charge of levelling their grounds,oftentimes make them but the worfesfince where the pla- ces are full of gaftly inequalities, there may be planted fomeforts ofCider-fruit, which isapt by the great burden to be prefs'd down to the ground, and there (whiles it hides Irregularities) to bear muchbetter, and abundantly beyond belief; for fo have been {cen many fuch recumbent Pear-trees bear each of them #9,three, yea, even tofixor more Hoglbeads yearly. And for this Cider, whiles we prefer fome forts of Wildings which do not tempt the palate of a Thief, by the caution wefhall not provoke any man to repent his charge fromthe neceflity of richer and more referv'd Enclofures; Though we have frequently feen divers Orchards fuccefsfully planted on very poor Arable, and even in {tony Gleab, gravel andclay, and that pretty high, on the fides and declivities of Hills, where it only bears very fhort grafs, like tothe moft ordinary Common, not worth the charge of Tillage : And yet eventhere the Tezants and Confiners fometimes enclofe it for the Fruit, and find their reward, though not equally to fuch Orchards as are planted on better ground, and: in the Vallies. Hence we fuggeft, Thatif there be no Statute for it, ’twere to be wifhed there were a Law which fhould allow ewdeavours of this nature out ofthe Covsmon-field,to enclofe for thefe Emcouragements, fince CHAP Vi Of Tranfplanting, and Diltance. at moft proper feafon for Tran{planting is before the hard Frofts of Winter furprize you, and that is a competent while before Chriflmas: And the main poiat is, to fee that the Roots be larger than the Head 5 and the more ways that extends, ? the better and firmer, (as If the Stock {eems able to ftand onits own three orfour legs we maycall ‘em,) and then after fettlement fome {tones be heaped orlaid about it, as it were gently wedging it faft, and fafe from Winds(w hich ftomes may after the fecond or third year be removed) fhait will falve from the main danger : For if the Roots be much ken the firt Sprivg, it will bardly recover it. You maytranfplant a Frait-Tree almoft at any tolerable /eafon of you the Year, efpecially if you apprehend it may be {pent before have finifh'd your work, having many toremove: Thus, let your asthe leaf be~ Trees be taken up about Allballontide, (or as foon fee gins to fall)s then having trimm’d and quickned the Roots, they themina Pit, forty, fifty, or a hundred together, yet fo as Spring may be covered with mould, and kept very frefh : By the and fo ready to they will be found well cured of their wounds, where they are ted Tranjplan being {trike root and put forth, that whereas being to ftand, they will take faddenly, and feldom fail; U thuscut at Spring they recover with greater hazard. buried The very Roots of Trees planted in the ground, and level of the Bed, a quarterof an Inch, orlittle more,of the within . will fprout, and grow to be very good Stocks This and oe other |