FRUIT-TREES. ty 



IT will be of great 'advantage to have) 

 an equal quantity of freih cow-dung, and 

 itiff mould mixed, as thick as common 

 pafte, and put on 'a thin layer all over 

 the cut part dire&ly ; this will prevent 

 the froft, fun, or wet, from penetrating 

 the wound, and keep it from gumming,, to 

 which they are fubjecl:. As foon as the 

 young moots will reach the wall, they 

 fliould be nailed horizonally ; all the fore- 

 right buds muft be nibbed off, and if the 

 feafon is very dry, they mould have a 

 little water ; if the trees were headed 

 down to fix eyes, they will produce at 

 leaft two good moots of a fide : the lower- 

 moil of each mufl be cut to fix or eight 

 eyes, and the upper ones .to four or five 

 the next pruning time. The trees that 

 were headed to four eyes may have good 

 branches on each fide, which may be cut 

 to fix eyes. 



IN the fpring all the fore-right moots 



mu ft be rubbed off as they appear ; from 



the fhoots that were cut eight eyes, three or 



6 four 



