FRUIT-TREES. 99 



are black, it is a fine flavoured fruit and 

 has an agreeable fharpnefs* 



THE management and pruning of 

 pears, plums, and cherries, heading them 

 down, training the branches the firft year, 

 and fhortening them at pruning time, are 

 fo much the fame, that it may feem fuper- 

 fluous to fay any thing more than what is 

 directed for pears. This might anfwerin 

 general, but there are fome particulars 

 belonging to. each fort which fhould not be 

 omitted. 



THE proper diftance of all kinds of 

 cherries is from eighteen feet to twenty 5 

 they bear much better fo than when 

 they are more crouded. 



yfc Raffing, Management, and Pruning of 

 Pigs. 



THE heft method is to raife them from 



layers, which fhould be laid in the fpring ; 



they will be fit to plant the fpring fol- 



G 2 lowing, 



