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The sixth, and last Piece of improve∣ment is for the discovering what great advance may be made upon our Lands by a Plantation of some Orchard-fruites, and some Garden-commodities.
CHAP. XLIII.
Treates how our Lands may be advanced by planting them with Orchard-fruites.
ANd for making good the Improvement pro∣mised, I shall shew these two or three things. 1. That abundance of Land is planted in many parts of this Nation, and thus improved. 2. That there is land, and very much, in all other parts that may be improved. 3: The fruits especially, by which they come to such an im∣provement.
1. That there is such land alreadey improved,* 1.1 none dare deny; to that height as is affirmed, many will question: I therefore doe in briefe affirme for my president, that, VVor∣cestershire, part of Glocestershire, and part of Herefordshire will speake out this truth, some men having their Planta∣tions, both of Apples, Pears, and Cheries, and so ordered that they hinder no more the growth of grasse then the compasse of a tree that grows upon it, nay, some question whether with their shadinesse in Summer, and warmnesse in Winter, they better not the land farre more, and their very growing