ry must be the soonest all wayes, excepted that you doe not
replant in the time of frost, for that is most vnholsome.

{SN: The taking vp of trees.}
Now when you will take vp your trees which you intend to replant in your
Orchard, you shall first with a spade bare all the maine branches of the
roote, and so by degrees digge and loosen the earth from the roote, in
such sort that you may with your owne strength raise the young tree from
the ground, which done, you shall not, according to the fashion of
Fraunce, dismember, or disroabe the tree of his beauties, that is to
say, to cut off all his vpper branches and armes, but you shall
diligently preserue them: for I haue seene a tree thus replanted after
the fall of the leafe to bring forth fruit in the summer following: but
if the tree you replant be olde then it is good to cut off the maine
branches with in a foote of the stocke, least the sappe running vpward,
and so forsaking the roote too sodainely doe kill the whole tree.

When you haue taken your tree vp, you shall obserue how, and in what
manner, it stoode, that is, which side was vpon the South and receiued
most comfort from the sunne, and which side was from it and receiued
most shadow and bleaknesse, and in the same sort as it then stoode, so
shall you replant it againe: this done you shall with a sharpe
cutting-knife, cut off all the maine rootes, within halfe a foote of the
tree, onely the small thriddes or twist-rootes you shall not cut at all:
then bringing the plant into your Orchard, you shall make a round hole
in that place where you intend to set your tree (the rankes, manner,
distance and forme whereof hath beene all ready declared, in the first
Chapter:) and this hole shalbe at least foure foote ouerthwart euery
way, and at least two foote deepe, then shall you fill vp the hole
againe, fifteene inches deepe, with the finest blacke mould, tempered
with Oxe dunge that you can get, so that then the hole shalbe but nine
inches deepe, then you shall take your tree and place it vpon that
earth, hauing care to open euery seuerall branch and thrid of the roote,
& so to place them that they may all looke downe into the earth, and not
any of them to looke backe and turne vpward: then shall you take of the
earth from whence your tree was taken, and tempering it with a fourth
part of Oxe dunge and slekt sope-asshes (for the killing of wormes)
couer all the roote of your tree firmely and strongly: then with greene