168 Of PRUNING. SECT. XII. 



continually bringing in, by removing some of the 

 old. 



*;***** 



Currants and sometimes Gooseberries are planted 

 against walls ; but they should be clean walls 



Train the lower branches somewhat horizontal as 

 far as their allotted room and then train upwards, 

 filling the middle as they grow. Keep the branches 

 about five or six inches asunder. They bear fruit 

 upon young wood, and on little spurs of the old. 

 Superfluous shoots of the trained branches, are to 

 be cut down to little stubs or spurs, about half an 

 inch long, which will throw out fruit shoots and 

 spurs. The mother branches of currants and goose- 

 berries will last many years ; but when good young 

 wood can be brought in for principals, a renewal 

 every three or four years is necessary to produce 

 fine fruit. Take care to provide shoots to the very 

 bottom of the wall, that no space may be lost. In 

 the early gathering of these fruits for pies or tarts, 

 there should be left a sprinkling all over the trees 

 to come on for table frujt. They will thus prove 

 very fine. 



* # * One general observation may be here made : 

 that all fruit trees mentioned since vines, are pruned 

 much in the same way, so that the young gardener 

 will not find the business of pruning so intricate as 

 he might imagine, from the number of words sever- 

 ally bestowed on the occasion. 



p- Wall trees are spoken of as to situation, dis- 

 tance, &c. in the section of the Formation of a 

 Garden, which see, with other particulars concerning 

 them. 



