3 Sheepe. 3 Blackbird.
4 Hare. 4 Crow.
5 Cony. 5 Pye.
6 Cattell.
7 Horse. &c.
_The other things are_,
1 Winds.
2 Cold.
3 Trees.
4 Weeds.
5 Wormes.
6 Mowles.
7 Filth.
8 Poysonfull smoke.
_Externall wilfull euils are these._
1 Walls.
2 Trenches.
3 Other works noisome done in or neere your Orchard.
4 Euill Neighbours.
5 A carelesse Master.
6 An vndiscreet, negligent or no keeper.
See you here an whole Army of mischeifes banded in troupes against the
most fruitfull trees the earth beares? assailing your good labours. Good
things haue most enemies.
{SN: Remedy.}
A skilfull Fructerer must put so his helping hand, and disband and put
them to flight.
{SN: Deere, &c.}
For the first ranke of beasts, besides your out strong fence, you must
haue a faire and swift Greyhound, a stone-bow, gun, and if need require,
an Apple with an hooke for a Deere, and an Hare-pipe for an Hare.
{SN: Birds.}
Your Cherries and other Berris when they be ripe, will draw all the
Black-birds, Thrushes, and Maw Pies to your Orchard. The Bul-finch is a
deuourer of your Fruit in the bud, I haue had whole trees shald out with
them in Winter-time.
{SN: Remedy.}
The best remedy here is a Stone bow, a Piece, especially if you haue a
Musket or Spar-hawke in Winter to make the Black bird stoope into a bush
or hedge.
{SN: Other trees.}
The Gardner must cleanse his soile of all other trees: but fruit-trees
aforesaid Chapter 2 for which it is ordained, and I would especially
name Oakes, Elmes, Ashes, and such other great wood, but that I doubt it
should be taken as an admission of lesser trees: for I admit of nothing
to grow in mine Orchard but fruit and flowers. If sap can hardly be good
to feed our fruit-trees, why should we allow of any other, especially
those, that will becom their Masters, & wrong them in their liuelyhood.
{SN: Winds.}
{SN: Frosts.}
And although we admit without the fence of Wall-nuts in most plaine
places, Trees middle-most, and ashes or Okes, or Elmes vtmost, set in
comely rowes equally distant with faire Allies twixt row and row to
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