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them ; and thofe which arc planted in pots fl^ould be 

 ailov/cd room for their roots to expand, and muft be 



' frequently watered, otherwiie they will not grow very 

 large. 



The inhabitants of the Weft-Indies draw an oil from 

 the feeds of thefc plants, which ferves for the ufe of 

 their lamps ^ and as the planes come up as weeds in 

 thofe. warm countries, fo they are at no trouble to 

 cultivate the plants, but employ their negroes to col- 

 left the feeds from the plants which grow naturally, 

 whereby they are furniflied with the oil ^t a fmall ex- 

 pence. This oil is good to kill lice in children's heads ; 

 and of late years it has been a moft efteftual remedy 

 for the dry belly-ach, which was a fatal diftemper in 

 the Weft-Indies ; it has alfo been found ferviceable 

 in England, in fuch diforders where no other medi- 

 cine will pafs through the body.- This oil is falfly 

 called Caftor Oil in the Weft-Indies, from the corrupt 

 ,- title of Agnus Caftus there given to the plant. 

 The feeds of the firft fort is the Cataputia major of 

 the fhops ; thefe have been formerly given by fome 



'/ pcrfons to purge watery humours, v/hich they do both 

 upward and downward with great violence, fo that at 

 preient thefe feeds are rarely ufed. 



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The Method of producing Early Fruits.' 



In order to liave early fruit, a wall fliould be erefted 

 ten feet high, and in length according to the number 

 of trees intended for three years forcing ; the method 

 -of conftrufting thefe walls is fully explained under 

 the article Wall.' 



the end of May, if they are forced at the fame tlm?, 

 and the Brugnon Neftarinc will follow that 



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This being done, a border may be tn^rked out about 

 four feet wide on the fouth fide of it, and fome fcant- 

 lings of wood, about four inches thick, muft be faft- 

 cned to the ground in a ftrait line, on the outfide of 



the border, to reft the glafs lights upon ; which lights 

 are to (lope backward to the wall, to Ihelter the fruit 



as there fhall be occafion. 



Bars about four inches wide, cut out of the whole 

 deal, muft be placed between thefe glafles, fo that the 

 lights may reft on them. There muft alfo be a door 

 fliapcd to .i;he profile of the frame at each end, that it 

 may be opened at either of the ends, according as the 

 wind blows. ^' • ^ ■ " ' • ' '• 



The frame before-mentioned fhould be made fo, t;hat 

 when the firft part has been forced,^ the whole frame 

 may be moved the next year forwlird, and the fiic- 

 ceedihg year forward again, fo that, the trees will^be 

 forced every third year v and having tvvo years to re- 

 cover themfclves, will continue in. vigour many years. 

 ,Thefe trees fliould be Veil grpwn before they are 

 forced, otherwife they will foon be deftroyed ; and the 

 fruit produced on grown treeswillbe much fairef and 

 ,better tafted, than on frefh planted trees/C ,5:-^>y ^.. 

 The fruit that may be planted in thefe frames are';, ?. 

 The Avant, the Albemarle, the Earl)^ Newingtori, 

 and Brown Nutmeg Peach^s-.^' ^■^:^/^^-^- ^^^ " ' 

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Nectarines -, the Mafculine Apricot j the May Duke 



and May Cherry. • '" ' ' ■ - _ ^"': 



As for Grapes, the ChalTelas and Black Clufter. , 

 Goofcberries ; the Dutch White,_ the Dutch Early 



. Currants 



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It has been found by experience, that the trees will be 

 injured, if the heat be applied before the middle or 

 end of January ; and that the time for applying the 

 heat for bringing either Duke or May Cherries, is 

 about the middle of that month, and applying heat 

 at the fame time would do for Apricots ; fo that the 

 Mafculine Apricot will, by the beginning of March, 

 be as large as Duke Cherries, and will be ripe by 

 the beginning of May. ■ ' * • • .' .; 



Clierries thus forced will not hold fo well as Apri- 

 cotG, though the former will laft, perhaps, for fevcn 

 years in good plight, but Apricots will thrive and 

 profper thus many years. , - . •.'■"-";:,•' 



Fairchild's Early Neftarine commonly ripens about 



the forward lorts of Plums, they ripen about the lat- 

 ter end of May* »f, ^ 



Goofcberries will produce green fruit fit for tarts in 

 March, and probably will ripen about the be^innint^ 

 or middle of April at the fartheft* ^ 



Currants might, by the fame heat that brJnrrs Cher- 

 ries in April, be forced to produce ripe fruit at the 

 fame time, if not fooner. 



As for the diftance of thefe trees one from another, 

 it need not be fo great as is direfted for thofe planted 

 in the open air, becaufe they will never ftioot fo vi- 

 goroufly nor laft fo long, therefore ( 

 will be fufficient. 



The higher parts of the wall being furnifhed with 

 Apricots, Cherries, Nectarines, Peaches, and Plums, 

 the lower fmall fpace between them may be filled up 

 with Currants, Goofcberries, and Rofes. 

 The trees againft that part of the wall which is 

 defigned for forcing, (hould be pruned as foon a3 

 their leaves begin to decay, that the buds on the 

 "branches which are left may be benefited, ^by receiv- 

 ing all the nouriftimeht of the branches, whereby they 

 will become turgid and ftrong, by the time the walls 

 are' heated. 



As to the nailing of thefe trees. 

 Every branch or Ihoot muft be laid as clofe to the 

 wall as can be; for the fruit which is near the wall 

 will be ripea month fooner than thofe that lie but 

 four inches from it. . :. ' . 



Sometimes it happens^ that the tops of fuch trees 

 have bloflx)ms above a month or fix weeks before the 

 bottom ; and fometimes one branch has been full of 

 blollbms, when there have been half a fcore or more 

 branches: of the fame tree, which have not ftirred till 

 the fruit of the firft blofix)ms has been almoft grown, 

 notwithftanding which the tree has done very well ; 

 and it is no uncommon thing for fuch trees to have 

 fruit ripening upon them for near three months con- 

 tinually, ■ . 



As for Goofcberries, thofe plants which are planted in 

 thefe frames, fliould be fuch as have been Ipread and 

 trained, when as many ftioots have been nailed to the 

 wall as m^y conveniently be done, others may be left 

 at a diftance from it, to fucceed them in ripening. 

 If they are- taken up in autunni, and properly ma- 



, naged, they will bear fruit the firft year as well as if 

 they had not been tranfplanted, but thefe ieldom laft 



: longer than two' or tTiree years'.-^*' ;."/'- ' '^/--../^.i^^O'r'; 



. JThe Currants may be ordered after the fame manner^. 



.and alfo the Rofes i and the beft kind of Rofe for this 



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'^ ' pufpofe, is the monthly Rofe, which ought always to ' 

 '''^ be tQpped about the end of July or the beginning of 

 Auguft, to ma£e them put out a good number .of t^ 

 ' flower-buds. '" V • ", : ' .",:V. \: - -^ ;'..'>> -?- 

 ■ ,.- As to the laying dung to the vi^allr^-.'Sy'v-- v 

 This, before it be laid to the back of the yvall, fiiould 

 be thrown up in a heap, and lie eig^t days, then 

 ., turned over, that it may be of an equal heat every : 

 ' where, and conftant, •' , ':'■-. '"■• '■^* 



When it has been thus prepared, it fhould be laid ■ 

 • about four feet thick at the bafe, and fo floping, till : 

 it is but two feet wide at the topV, 



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It fhould^ be laid at firft within four inches of the top 

 Oof the wall^'for it will fink two feet in fix weeks 

 '^1 time; and then fome frefh dung'^muft be laid, be- 

 "' -caufe the firft heat will not do much more than fwell 



the buds of the trees, or bring therh to flower. ■ - - 



But, according as the ffofts fliall have happened to 

 • have had more or lefs influence over the buds, this 



will happen fooner or later. 



If thefe trees be covered with the glaflesa month be^ 



"'^'fore tlie dung is laid againft the wall, it will contri- 



,. bute very much to forward their blofTomjng ; for 



though their bloflToms will not be deftroyed by the 



frofts, yet the more the- firofls come at them, they 

 ' will be the drier and more^hard to open. " " • " 



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