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Show ms O > POMONA: other being Experiments of our own; we thought convenietit’ta mention. By the. oft removal of a Wild-fiock, cutting the ends ofthe Roots , and dif-branching fomewhat of the Head atevery change of place, it will greatly abate of its natural wildnefs, and in time bring forth more c#vél and ingennous Fruit: Thus Gillyflowers do (by oft removals, and at full- Moon efpecially) increafe and muls tiply the leaves, Plant not too deep; for the over-tirf is always richer than the next Mould. How material it is to keep the coaf? or fide of the Stock, as well in Fruit-trees as in Fore/t, we have fofficiently dif cufs'd 5 nor is the Negative to be prov'd. For the diftance in Fields,they may be fet from thirty twotofixty Foot, foas not to hinder the Plovgh, nor the benefic of manure of A An Ans ee Dn bon VOHNGIX COHCEI M4HE The OF PLUM § Tees, ° ! you must fillupth einner part of the Circle with the loofe the fecond{pit whichyoudig ont of your Trench, and which etwo foot and half wide, or more, as you defireto mount the k, which by this means you will have rais'd about your Plane bree foot in heighth, At the point it needs not be above two foot or eighteen inches diametre, where you wayleave the Earth in nuey the Rain towards the body of the Tree L upon the top of this hillock prick up five orfix fall Briars or ins, binding them lightly tothe body of the Plant, and you have h'd the work, The commodities of this kind of Planting are, Firft, Neither Swine, wor Sheep, wor any other fort of Cattel can annoy your Trees, secondly, You may adventure tofet the (waller Plants, being thus ed, and fecur'dfrou the reach of Cattel, and foil; but in hedg-rows as much nearer as you pleafe, Sun and Air confidered. Your Trees faften in the Hillock again/? violence of Stakes to fret and cankerthem. If the foil be wet, it hereby made healthy. ery dry, the hillock defendsfrom the outwardheat. CHAP. VII. Of the Fencing. ~Eeing a Cider-Orchard is but a wild Plantation, beftin Arable \) well enclos'd from 'Beaf#s, and yet better onthe Tops, Ridges, and natural Inequalities, (though with fome lofs of Order, as we thew'd,) one ofthe greateft diftouragements is the preférving of our Trees being planted, the raifing of themfo familiar. Wehave in our Sylva treated in particular ofthis, as of one of the moft material obffacles; wherein yet we did purpolely omit one Expedient, which came thento our hands from the veryIndu{trious Mr. Buckland tothe Learned Dr. Beal: You fhallhave it in Sixthly, It prevents the Couch-grafs, which for the firtt years in- And, robs inoft plants fexfibly : in fandy grounds apt to graze. ae Laftly, The grazing bank will recompence the nigardly Farmerfor the wafte ofhis Ditch, which otherwife he will forely bethink. Iz thefecond orthird year (by what time your Roots fpread) the h, #fthe Groundbe moift, or Seafons wet, will be neerfill’d [ gain bythe treading of Cattels for it need not be cleanfed; but 2 you wufirenew your Thorns: etdfthe Planter be curious, I idvije acafting offome {mall quantity of rich Mould into the Trench the fecondyear, which may improve the growth, fthe Its to fre ad. p 4 In this manner of Pi: ing, where the foil # not rich, the exad terfhould add a little quantity to each Root of Earth from a freh+way, or Yard where Cattel are kept 3 One Load will or feven Trees 5 this being much more proper than rot- his own words, oofe Earth 5 the fat Mould beft agreeing with the Apple This of Fencingfingle Trees ufeth to be done by Rails at great char- gess or by Hedges and Buthes, which every other year mujt be re- er willbe your Bank, | fome good Earthix new'd, and the materials ot to be had in all places neither. I therefore prefer and commend to you. the enfuing form of Planting and Fencing, which is more cheap and eafte, and which hath other Advantages iv it, and not commonly known. I never {aw it but once, and that imperfectly perform'd; but have practis'd it my {elf mith fuccefs: Take it thus. Set your Treeon the Green-{warth, or five or fixinches waderit if the toil be very healthy 5 ifmoitt or weeping, half a foot aboveit 5 then cut a Trench round that Tree, two foot or more in the cleare from it: Lay arank of the Turfs, with the grals outward, uponthe inner fide of the Trench towards your Plant, and thex a {econd rank upon the former, andfoathird, andfourth, all orderly plac’d, (as é2 a Fortification) andleaning towards the Tree, after the form of «Pyramide, or larger Hop-hill: Always as you place a row of Turks in f az upright growth be thus reading of low will be till within reac of ath anyine ience inthis l ; ip growing | encreafe: Nor have I met kind of Tranfplanting (which ss ap- lole and the Ant may find 1d fometime impairs aweak rooted mifcarries. In fui, 7 ecutedby an indifferent WorkTrees in a Winter day. Thus fhall only add, That thofe whi noneof thefe defence |
