94 THE FORCING GA&DENER. [B, J f 



SECTION V. 



On training and Pruning. 



IN the laft Section, I have obferved, that; 

 the plants fhould be planted at double 

 thicknefs, in order to furriifli the houfe, 

 and obtain a crop or two while the tem- 

 porary plants remain. Thefe muft be mark- 

 ed, and confidered as fuch from the begin- 

 ning : and, as the farther mention of them 

 in refped: of training*and pruning would 

 only tend to confufion, I fhall fimply treat 

 of the principals ; leaving the thirming a- 

 way, and final extirpation of the tempo- 

 rals, to the judgment and difcretion of the 

 operator. 



The plants being headed down to three 

 or four eyes, as direded in Sedion III, 

 will generally pufti them all 3 in w^hich 

 cafe, rub * off the \veakefl one, and drefs 

 in the other three, as they advance, at the 



diftance 



* The knife fhould be ufed as little as poffible ; and| 

 the young fhoots being of fo tender and brittle a na- 

 ture, there is no difficulty in doing all that is required 

 in fummer drefling, with tfie finger and thumb, except 



