NOV.] PLANTING, &C. Sjf) 



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Of planting Fruit- Trees. 



AhL kinds of fruit-trees may no\y be pliintcd, li 

 the weather be fresh and tolerably dry. It is by no 

 means advisuble, however, to jjJant at this season, in 

 heavy or wet lands. The middle or latter end of 

 March is a better season for planting in such soils. 

 In liglit absorbent soils, this is a very proper time to 

 plant ; arid in those of a middlijig texture, Februa- 

 ry. But, generally speaking, if the ground liave 

 been properly prepared^ and laid comfortably dry, 

 whic]i it is supposed would be done in the intention 

 of planting fruit-trees in any situation, the busine^''^ 

 of planting ma^^ go on from the first of this month 

 till the first of April, provided it be only done in 

 fresh and moderately dry weather, as above obser- 

 ved. The reader is requested to turn to January 

 and February, where full directions on this subject 

 will be found. 



Of pruning Fruil- Trees. 

 Fruit-trees of all kinds, except fgs, vines, and 

 peaches, whose shoots have not heen fully ripened, 

 may nov/ be pruned. But if the shoots of these 

 have been perfectly matured by the sun, there is no- 

 thing to hinder them from being pruned also. The 

 idea, that none of the kinds of ston.e-fruits should be 



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