CH. 4.] FIGS. 69 



five or fix afunder. The feafon of plant- 

 ing is from the firft of November to the 

 firft of March. 



Rider cherries may, with propriety, be 

 planted between thole on the back-wall j 

 as, efpecially if they have been a year or 

 two in training, a few crops may be ex- 

 peeled before it would be neceflary to re- 

 move them. Fill in the pits with rich, 

 light comport, and fettle all with a little 

 water. 



SECTION III. 

 On Training and Pruning, 



THE chief art in training the Fig is, 

 to keep every part of the trellis full 

 of young flioots, the plant naturally run- 

 ning into , naked unfightly branches in the: 

 middle. Shoots, however, may be produced 

 with facility, by Jhortening : they alfo rife 

 abundantly from the root, round the ft em 

 of the plant. Producing its fruit on the 

 fhoots of the preceding year, theie, if well 

 ripened, fhould not be fhortened, but 

 (hould be laid in "at full length, and at the 

 E 3 diltance 



