Instructions for Pruning, Budding, &:c. xxv 



when it rains) as the juices are not then too quickly ex- 

 haled, which is occafioned by performing it when the 

 rays of the fun areflrong; nor (hould ihtfe cuttings be 

 taken too long from the trees before ufing, that they 

 may retain as much as poflible their natural moillure; 

 fo that when they are taken to a diftance, a tin inftru- 

 ment is to be provided with fockets, about ten inches 

 long, to be filled with water, covering their tops with a 

 lid to exclude the air, but pierced in fome places to carry 

 off the exhalations; in thefe the cuttings are to be fet 

 upright, with the cut down, carefully keeping the buds 

 from being immerfed in the water; and it is to be ob- 

 ferved, that fome tender trees require the little wood at 

 the extremity of the fhoot to be preferved, which in 

 others is dire6ted to be cut off. 



Layers \ by thefe many trees, &c. are propagated, 

 which otherwife we could not have. Laying of layers is 

 thus performed : the one year old fhoots near the ground, 

 are to be chofen ; from them all fide flioots are to be ta- 

 ken, and fuch as ftrike root with difficulty, are to have 

 a flit made upwards at a joint, and in that part which is 

 laid under the earth, or a piece of wire twifted in the 

 fame part, to check the mounting fap, wliich will haften 

 their flriking root ; before the laying down of the layers, 

 let the earth be well dug, and the clods broken, then the 

 fhoots are to be laid, five or fix inches under the furface 

 of the enrth, and fecured by pegs, leaving the end of 

 the fhoots, five or fix inches above ground, in an ere61: 

 pofition. The feafon for laying hardy trees, that Ihed 

 their leaves, is in O^ohrr, but fuch as are tender, in 

 March; ior Ever-greens, July CK Angufl -, and the fum- 

 mer feafon is the befl: time, for fmall plants; to have 

 layers from iiigh fi:andards, they mult have earth raifed 

 about them. 



Ne^art7ic; for its management, ie^ Peach. 



Northern Afpe^. This is the leaft favourable in thefe 

 climes, but however, it may be made a convenience, in 

 retarding the ripening of fruits : The Morello Cherry for 

 prcferving ; red and wh'wt Currant Sy and fome fummer 

 Pears, planted in this afpe6t, continue lung in bearing 

 and ripening. 



c 2 Nurfery, 



