74 OF PRUNING 



and currants ; it has .brought peach-trees 

 to flourim that were thought pafl all re- 

 covery. 



THE foil being improper often caufes 

 them to blight, and to grow in fuch a 

 rude manner that the beft initruments in 

 pruning cannot keep them in order ; when 

 that is the cafe, the foil and depth of the 

 trees roots mould be examined. If the foil 

 does not correfpond to any of thofe kinds 

 directed, for the kind of fruit growing in it, 

 Xhe border mould be properly prepared, 

 and if the roots haye got jtop .deep, they 

 fhould be railed. 



IF the roots of peaches or nectarines are 

 too deep, and the trees above eight or nine 

 vears old, it is better to plant near one j 

 all other kinds of fruit may be moved afV 

 ter bearing thirty or forty years. 



HAVING now gone through the prepa- 

 ration of the borders, planting the frees, 

 and given fome directions to prevent their 



blighting, 



