xvi Instructions for Pruning, Budding, ^-c. 

 foon produced, for the w'&W or Efpalier: Butfhould the fruit 

 not be approved of, the young branches may be budded 

 the fame lummer, or grafted the following fpring, which 

 will come into truit much fooner than perhaps is ex- 

 pected, for one of theie old trees thus managed, will in 

 three years produce more fruit, than a new one will in 

 ten, efpeciajly if the foil be improved. ^ 



Fig-Tree. The feafon for pruning this tree is in Au- 

 guft, as the branches are not then in full fap, fo that the 

 bleeding will be the lefs : The branches are not to be 

 Ihortened, as the fruit is produced at the upper part of 

 the former year's fnoots, and cutting the branches is apt 

 to make them decay ; when the branches are too clofe, 

 cut out the naked branches to the bottom, leaving thofe 

 which are bed furnifhed with lateral branches, at a pro- 

 per diftance from each other, which fhould not be nearer 

 than a foot, and fliould they be well furniflied with late- 

 ral branches, let them be laid four or five inches farther 

 afunder. Obferve thefe trees are to be flripped of all 

 autumnal Figs, and the fooner this is done the better, 

 and if the buds at tlie extremity of the flioots are rub- 

 bed off with the finger, it will caufe them to put out a 

 greater crop of fruit in the fpring; this will enable the 

 young (hoots the better to refifl the cold; but the feve- 

 rity of fome feafons being too great for thefe tender 

 fhcots, their upper parts will be killed, for a confidera- 

 ble length downwards; when this happens let the decay- 

 ed part of the fhoot be cut away: Itjs chiefly from the 

 uppermoft joints of the flioots the fruit is produced, 

 therefore as many of the fhort lateral branches fhould be 

 prefer ved, as polTible, not only for this purpofe, but to 

 turnifli the lower part of the tree v/ith v/ood. 



Gccfeberry. In order to have their fruit in perfection 

 you muft ufe the knife, by fliortening the flrong fhoots 

 lo about ten inches, cutting out all irregular branches, 

 and thinning the fruit-bearing branches ; when they are 

 too thick, obterve always to cut behind a leaf bud, and 

 dig the ground about them once a year, and every fe- 

 cond bellow a little dung on them, this will greatly im- 

 prove their fruit, which are not delpicable. 



Graftings is the taking a llioot from one tree, to in- 

 fert into aiiothcr; this by fomc is called incifion, to dif- 



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