166 -OF PRUNING. SECT. XII. 



wanted for new beds, they mufl be fufFered to run. 

 See pages 39, 78. 



The drejfing of flrawberries confifls not only of 

 pruning from runners ; but cutting down the great 

 leaves in autumn (early) with a fcythe ; or, which is 

 better, by taking them up in the hand, and ufing a 

 knife. At this time they mufl be weeded, and the 

 ground ftirred between them, d^ep enough to cut the 

 ends of the roots a little. Then there mould be fpread 

 over the beds a little, rotten dung, or good frefh earth, 

 and all afterwards kept tree from the weeds. Let the 

 Jurface of . the ground be ftirred again in fpring y and 

 any hollows that may be between the plants filled 

 up with earth, and a little dung amongft itj if none was 

 applied in autumn. Thus with good management the 

 delicious ftrawh,erry will be had in abundance and per- 

 fection, the fealon not being unpropitious. 



Flowering Shrubs aie of great variety, and the 

 method of pruning them is to be determined ac- 

 cording to the feveral modes of bearing, of which 

 confider chiefly thefe ; that is, whether they produce 

 their flowers upon the lajl year's (hoots, or the }rt* 

 Jfent ; on the ends* or the Jides of their branches. If 

 a fhrub bears on the lajl year's moots, it is evident 

 that it muft be cut away no more than is neceffary to 

 keep it within bounds, open, and handfome as to its 

 form ; in this cafe, it is the bufinefs to cut clean out, 

 orvtry low, what is to be fpared. If j fhrub bears 

 on the prejent year's moots, the old wood may, and 

 imift be cut down freely, lb however as to leave eyes 

 enough for new moots to proceed from, to make a 

 fufficient head and {how. If the fhrub bears altoge- 

 ther, or chiefly at its ends, no fhortening muft take 

 place ; but if fome of the branches are too long, they 

 may be either cut out, or quite low, leaving the 

 Ihorter ones to bear. If the fhrub bears along its Jules, 



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