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Thefe beins the forts which ripen early, are 

 moft proper to plant againft tnefe Wall^, although 

 they are not To' valuable as .forhe ' other forts of thefe 

 fruits : yet, as they naturally ripen three weeks or a 

 montli earlier in '^the feaW, they will be very early 

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In the preparing of the borders for planting thefe 



fruit-trees, there fhould be the fame care taken as 

 for thofe againft open borders, which, being fully treat- 

 ed of in another part o'f this worlc, I Ihall hdt' repeat 

 here. There miift alfo be the fame care in training up 

 the trees when they moot ; but the trelules need not 

 be made againft thefe .Walls till the'trdes are' grown 

 laree enough to fpread, and produce a quantity of 

 fruit ; till which time they may be fupported by any 

 .^low WdinaY't^'ellis, ' which wil do very well till the 

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; '/whiclT will noVbe^untii theTourth 6t fifth year' after 



'^Ppfanting, according td'the'progrefs they have made; 



; " for if they are forced too young, it will weajceri them 

 fo much, as that they feldom make vig6r6us Trees af- 

 terward -, befides the quantity of fruit which fuch 

 young trees produce, is not worth the expence and 

 trouble of forcing *, for the quantity of fuel ufed, and 



"" '^*" the ^ trouble wi]l be the fame for fmall trees, which 

 are not" capable of producing more than fix or eight 



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three or |pur dozen ; fo that the greater time the trees 

 have to grow before they are forced, the better they 

 will pay for the trouble and expence. ' _^ ., . . : 



. But it will be the beft way not to have 'any of the 

 frames made, nor the trellis, or any other of the 



■ wood-work, until the trees are ftrong enough to force ; 

 for if thefe are done when the Walls are firft built, as 

 is by fome perfons'praftifed, they will be half de- 

 cayed before there is any ufe for them ; but then the 

 perfons who are employed in leaking the trellis, miift 

 be very careful in putting it up, 'n6t to injure the 



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When the trees have acquired ftrength enough ta 

 produce a quantity of fruit, the part which is defigned 



." to be forced the following fpring, fhould be carefully 

 pruned early in autumn, when the very weak flioots 



■ muft be either entirely cut out, or pruned very'ftiort, 



* becaufe thefe, by being forced, will^for the moft part 



decay,' and. though fome of them may be full of 



flower-buds, yet thefe flioots being weak ' cannot 



" nourifti them ; fo that the flo>vers having exhaufted all 

 " ". the fap, the fhootswill die foon after, and rarely pro- 



,'■ duce any fruir, or atleaft do not bring them to per- 



' fedion. The other more vigorous ftioots fliould alfo 

 be fliortened to a proper length, after the fame man- 

 ner as is direfted for thofe trees in the open air, with 

 this difference only, viz. that thefe which are defigned 

 for forcing, fhould not have their fhoots left fo long, 

 becaufe the forcing of them will weaken them ; and 

 confequently, fliould there be as great a length of 

 branches, there will probably be a greater number of 

 fruit on them •, becaufe, as thefe will be fcreened from 

 the open air, they will not be liable to blafts, or the 



injuries of thefroft; and the having too many fruit 

 on the trees wiir render them^ fmall, 'and alfo too 

 ; much weaken the trees j then the flioots ftiould be all 

 regularly faftened to the tre'llis,* at' a proper diftance 

 from each other, fo that wh6h' Ihd branched fhobt the 

 following fpring, they may not over-hang each bthcr. 

 The realbn for my advifing thefe trees to be pruned 

 fo early in the feafon, is, that thofe bran& which 

 are left on, "may enjoy the whole nourifliment of the 

 fap, fo that the buds will bdcom<^'\^"ery turVid durino- 

 the Winter lealon, and will be prepared to Open when 

 the fires are fetfoVork:;;j;.,r'^''' '. r'^^S 

 : ■ -.The time for beginning to ipaice the fires is p^^^^^^^ the 

 middle or latter end of January, according as the fea- 

 fon is more';^^^ 



. forced too early into flower, they will be in fom'e dan- 

 ner of *mifcfarfying, if the weather' fhould" prove fe- 

 verej fo that it is by much the^fureft method to be- 

 gin about the time here dire£l:ec£, becaufe there will be 

 a' neceflity of admitting frcfh aiir^to the trees'when 



■ ,:they are in flower, which cannot be done fafely when 

 " they flower in very bad weather. And thofe trees 



■"..which are forced into flower by the middle of Febru- 



■ ary, will ripen their fruit as early as moft "people will 

 defire to eat them' '; for the Cherries will ripen early 

 in April, and the Apricots by the beginning of May, 

 and foon after the Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines, 

 will be ripe. ' ."' 

 There are fome perfons who plant Strawbernes In 



'their borders before the fruit-trees, in order to have 



. ; early fruit, which often fucceed very v/ell ; but where- 

 -. ever this is praftifed, great care fhould be 'taken to 



"keep tliem from fpreading over the border, "becaufe 

 theie plants will exhauft-the pfiricipa! gooHrieTs of the 

 earth, and thereby injure the trees : fo that wheii it is 



\\ defigned to have Strawberries in thefe borders^ I would 

 advife, that the roots fhould be either planted inkpots, 

 ' or fingly at a good diftance on a fhady border of Foamy 

 earth, one year before they are' defigned to be fenced; 

 during which time the runners fhould be diligently 

 pulled off, to encourage the mam roots for fruiting ; 

 and at 'Michaelmas thefe plants may be trarifplj'nted, 

 with large balls of earth to their roots, into the bor- 

 ders, before the fruit-trees which are to be forc^^d the 

 following fpring, fo that they may have time tb get 

 new root before that feafon ; and if thefe plants are 

 carefully watered when they begin to fhew their flower- 



-' buds, they will produce a good quantity of fruir, 

 which will ripen the latter end of Apnl, or the begin- 



- ning of May \ but then I would alfo advife, that thefe 

 plants be taken away as foon as they have done bear- 

 ' mg, that they may not rob the trees of their nourifh- 

 ment. 



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Since I have mentioned this method of having early 

 Strawberries, I fhall take the liberty to infert another 

 method, which is often pradlifed to obtain this fruit 

 early in the fpring, though it doth not fo properly 



■ come under this article,' which is to train up the plants 

 either in pots or borders, after the manner before di- 

 rected, for at leaftone year or more ; then in the be- 

 ginning of February there fhould be a moderate hot- 



' bed prepared, in length proportionable to the number 

 of plants defigned to be forced, and the breadth fhould 

 be proportionable to the width of the frames which 

 are defigned to cover them. Thefe frames may be fuch 

 as are ufed for common hot-beds, to raife early Cu- 

 'cumbers,' &c. This hot-bed muft be covered with frefli 

 loamy earth about eight inches thick, into vvhich the 

 Strawberry plants fhould be ptaced, with large balls 

 of earth to the roots, asclofe as they can conveniently 

 be planted i (for as they muft be kept clear from run- 

 ners, they will not' fpread much durinjg the time they 

 remain in the bed, which will be no longer than until 

 their fruit is gone.) Then they fhould be gently 

 watered to fettle the earth to their roots, which muft 



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be frequently repeated as the earth becomes dry, other- 

 wife they will produce new fruit. While the nights 

 continue cold, the glaffes of the hot-bed fhould be co- 

 vered with mats, to preferve a kindly warmth in the 

 beds ; but in the day time, when the weather is fa- 



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