uoide the boisterous blasts of winds, and within them also others for
Bees; yet wee admit none of these into your Orchard-plat: other remedy
then this haue wee none against the nipping frosts.

{SN: Weeds.}
Weeds in a fertile soile (because the generall curse is so) till your
Trees grow great, will be noysome, and deforme your allies, walkes,
beds, and squares, your vnder Gardners must labour to keepe all cleanly
& handsome from them and all other filth with a Spade, weeding kniues,
rake with iron teeth: a skrapple of Iron thus formed.

IC

For Nettles and ground-Iuy after a showre.

{SN: Remedy.}
When weeds, straw, stickes and all other scrapings are gathered
together, burne them not, but bury them vnder your crust in any place of
your Orchard, and they will dye and fatten your ground.

{SN: Wormes. Moales.}
Wormes and Moales open the earth, and let in aire to the roots of your
trees, and deforme your squares and walkes, and feeding in the earth,
being in number infinite, draw on barrennesse.

{SN: Remedy.}
Worms may be easily destroyed. Any Summer euening when it is darke,
after a showre with a candle, you may fill bushels, but you must tred
nimbly & where you cannot come to catch them so; sift the earth with
coale ashes an inch or two thicknes, and that is a plague to them, so is
sharpe grauell.

Moales will anger you, if your Gardner or some skilful Moale-catcher
ease you not, especially hauing made their fortresses among the roots of
your trees: you must watch her wel with a Moal spare, at morne, noon,
and night, when you see her vtmost hill, cast a Trench betwixt her and
her home (for she hath a principall mansion to dwell and breed in about
_Aprill_, which you may discerne by a principall hill, wherein you may
catch her, if you trench it round and sure, and watch well) or
wheresoeuer you can discerne a single passage (for such she hath) there
trench, and watch, and haue her.

{SN: Wilfull annoyances.}
Wilfull annoyances must be preuented and auoided by the loue of the
Master and Fruterer, which they beare to their Orchard.

{SN: Remedy.}
Iustice and liberality will put away euill neighbours or euill
neighbour-hood. And then if (God blesse and giue successe to your
labours) I see not what hurt your Orchard can sustaine.

CHAP. 14.

_Of the age of Trees._

{SN: The age of trees.}
It is to be considered: All this Treatise of trees tends to this end,
that men may loue and plant Orchards, w