IS* CF PRUNING, SECT. X!i, 



longer, efpechlly in a northern afpecr of the garden,, 

 or lome fhady place ; and if to this fituar.ion and. 

 fullnefs, be added matting or netting, they may be pre- 

 ferred till November. 



■ The time of pruning thefe trees, is commonly held- 

 to be indifferent, and any time between leaf and leaf, 

 may be adopted to cut them as opportunity offers. 

 But when they are getting into leal is (perhaps) the- 

 bed time ; as when pruned early, there is frequently a. 

 .lofs of almoft the whole fruit, by birds eating the buds.. 

 Leaving the whole head on till Jpring, is a i'ecurity as. 

 Uj 2l crop of fruit, as the cafe would be bad indeed, if 

 fame good branches are net. left, properly fumilhed- 

 witb uninjured buds; but dill it is allowed, that an. 

 early pruning flrengthens the tree, and tends to encreafe, 

 the tizeof the fruit, 



Currant trees need not to be kept fo open as gooffs 

 berry, the branches of which ihould be [fox fine fruit), 

 five or iix inches afunder, and as little fhortened as 

 poflible. Thofe forts of gcofeberries whofe moots, 

 grow in a curved manner, may have their long, 

 branches, when in fruit, fupported with little forked 

 Sicks. Keep thefe trees clear of fuckers, and all moots, 

 from the item, that are within nine or ten inches o£ 

 the ground. 



For planting ftandards in orchards^ &c. See fection $*, 



4. Or PRUNING SHRUBS. 



Many Jhrubs are cultivated for their crnamcv.t, and 

 fpme for their fruit .; of the. latter kind are raj cherries. 

 and burberries. 



II asp berries bear fruit on littfe fide moots ot the 

 prefent year, proceeding from ilems ot the luff, and 

 fometimes produce a little on thofe of the fame year.. 

 To prune or drefs the fhrub, therefore, firft cut out 

 alj the old hearers, whofe wood dies, then cut out,, 

 clofe to the flool, all the. new ihoots, except three or 



four 



