•24^ of Fruit'^Gardens. 



therefore the new thick Branches ought to be 

 fhorten'd Yearly to a Foot or thereabouts, 

 and the Bud at the End of the Branches to be 

 broken off in the Spring Time^ that inflead 

 of one fingle Branch it may have two, and 

 it may caufe them to fhoot out Figs the 

 earlier. 



The Seafon of Pruning the Fig, is the lat- 

 ter End of March 'j and whatever you cut 

 from the Fig, you mud do it as ciofe to the 

 great Wood or Root as you can 5 and I havq 

 known a whole Tree entirely cut down to 

 the Roots after an unkmd VVinter, for its 

 Recovery from a fickly State of Health, which 

 it has efFeded. Take care to keep it from 

 Suckers, which this Tree puts forth in great 

 abundance. 



.It is beft in the Summer to let this Tree 

 have fome Liberty from the Wall, and not 

 to let it continue ciofe tack'd, as other Frliit 

 Trees 5 but in the Winter fome of the ftrag- 

 gling Branches ought to be cut off, and the 

 beft and biggefl: Branches to be tack'd ciofe 

 to the Wall in November^ that they may be 

 the mote effedually (helter'd from the Frofts 

 in the Winter ^ by a Defence of Mat or other- 

 wife, efpecialiy in an extreme cold Seafon. 



The North-Ea/i Wind, and fometimes a 

 South Wind, proves fatal to thefe Trees, 



Tniiiing 



