aines to void corners) are
better then trees. Neither are those places without trees. Our old
fathers can tel vs, how woods are decaied, & people in the
roomth of trees multiplied. I haue stood somwhat long in this poynt,
because some do condemne a moist soile for fruit-trees.

{SN: Winds. Chap. 13.}
A low ground is good to auoide the danger of winds, both for shaking
downe your vnripe fruite. Trees the most (that I know) being loaden with
wood, for want of proyning, and growing high, by the vnskilfulnesse of
the Arborist, must needes be in continuall danger of the South-west,
West, and North west winds, especially in _September_ and _March_, when
the aire is most temperate from extreme heat, and cold, which are deadly
enemies to great winds. Wherefore chuse your ground low: Or if you be
forced to plant in a higher ground, let high and strong wals, houses,
and trees, as wall-nuts, plane trees, Okes, and Ashes, placed in good
order, be your fence for winds.

The sucken of your dwelling house, descending into your orchard, if it
be cleanly conueyed, is good.

{SN: Sunne.}
The Sunne, in some sort, is the life of the world. It maketh proud
growth, and ripens kindly, and speedily, according to the golden tearme:
_Annus fructificat, non tellus_. Therefore in the countries, neerer
approching the Zodiake, the Sunnes habitation, they haue better, and
sooner ripe fruite, then we that dwell in these frozen parts.

{SN: Trees against a wall.}
This prouoketh most of our great Arborists, to plant Apricockes,
Cherries and Peaches, by a wall, and with tackes, and other meanes to
spread them vpon, and fasten them to a wall, to haue the benefit of the
immoderate reflexe of the Sunne, which is commendable, for the hauing of
faire, good & soone ripe fruit. But let them know it is more hurtfull to
their trees then the benefit they reape therby: as not suffering a tree
to liue the tenth part of his age. It helpes Gardners to worke, for
first the wall hinders the roots, because into a dry and hard wall of
earth or stone a tree will not, nor cannot put any root to profit, but
especially it stops the passage of sap, whereby the barke is wounded, &
the wood, & diseases grow, so that the tree becomes short of life. For
as in the body of a man, the leaning or lying on some member, wherby the
course of bloud is stopt, makes that member as it were dead for the
time, till the bloud returne to his course, and I thinke, if that
stopping should co