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they may pum ftrong wood for next year, 

 as the preparation for the next early crop 

 is. what is to be regarded this feafon, 

 Thofe who prefer a good crop to having 

 them very early, may force the fame wall 

 with glaffes for many years witji good 

 fuccefs. 



THE beginning of March is a good fea- 

 fon to begin to apply the heat, if the 

 weather will permit. It is much better 

 to have the fire at the wall ten or fifteen 

 days before the glafles are put on ; but it 

 will be dangerous to keep them long with- 

 out glafs at that feafon ; for after they 

 begin to pufh, and the moot is jufl coming 

 out, if the froft mould catch the top of it, 

 all hopes of a crop are fruftrated for the 

 feafon. 



GIVE a good deal of air every day, 

 especially when the fun is hot ; for if 

 drawn, they drop their fruit after it is 

 formed, before they come into bloflbm. 

 There mould be little or no water given 



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