gOO THE FRUIT GARDENER. 



SECTION VIII. 



On the Cultivation of SMALL FRUIT* 



THE method of planting ftandard Fruit- 

 trees, to divide the quarters of the 

 kitchen-garden, is now juftly exploded. 

 They are found to injure the under crops 

 much. The method of planting currants 

 and goofeberries round the edges, and to 

 fubdivide the kitchen-garden, is alfo juftly 

 exploded 3 and they are now generally plant- 

 ed in quarters by themfelve? : fo are rafp- 

 berries and ftrawberries. 



And thus an opportunity of changing 

 crops is afforded, as the beft method is to 

 make new plantations of ftrawberries every 

 fourth or fifth year ; and of currants, goofe- 

 berries, and rafpberries, every feyenth or 

 eighth. The three laft named, having 

 much the fame effed on the foil, may not 

 take place of one another with propriety ; 

 but may with ftrawberries, and alfo ftraw- 

 berries with any of them. 



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