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a Winter pruning fufficient; but they 

 fhould have a Summer drefling alfo, when 

 the fnperfluous ftiQots are to be rubbed ofT. 

 This, however, is not fo neceflary for cur- 

 rants. Indeed, they generally fwell their 

 fruit larger if fliaded in a moderate degree, 

 though it mufl be allowed the flavour is 

 not fo high, as when the plant is kept 

 more open and free of luxuriant moots. 



Some goofeberries are of the weeping 

 kind, and when heavy laden, the fruit is fre- 

 quently much injured, and even daflied off 

 by the branches dragging on the ground. 

 To prevent which, a hoop Ihould be faflen- 

 ed to flakes or pegs drove into the ground, 

 and at the diflance of a foot from it $ to 

 which let the branches be drefled in a re- 

 gular manner. 



Rafpberries 



Are alfo to be planted at from four to 

 fix feet apart each way, according to their 

 kind, and the quality of the foil. In good 

 land, the Antwerp kinds require at leaft 

 fix feet : the common, a foot or two lefs, as 

 they do not grow fo luxuriantly. I have 

 feen a quarter of Antwerp* , which avera- 

 ged 



