nxv'i Instructions for Pruning, Budding, &:c. 



NurfcrVf is the place fet apart, tor railing and propa- 

 gating, of all Torts of trees, and plants, to fupply the 

 garden, and other plantations. 



Peaches. Thefe trees are to be equally furniflied with 

 bearing wood, avoiding to lay them too cloie to each 

 other ; and it muft be obferved, that as they produce 

 their fruit upon young wood, either of the preceding 

 year, or at moil:, from two years old wood, (for after 

 that they will not bear) the branches fhould be fhortened 

 to occafion a produce of new flioots every year, and in 

 every part di' the tree, obferving always to cut behind a 

 wood bud, as I fhall direcf more particularly; the time 

 for this is in the months of Aprils May and yimCi when 

 foreright flioots muft be pinched off, (fee a, fig. i8) the 

 luxuriant branches checked by pinching, and new fhoots 

 produced, where wanting, by flopping the fap in the 

 neighbouring branches ; the fhoots produced this feafon, 

 will have time to ripen againft autumn, whereas thofc 

 produced after June, will be crude and pithy, confe- 

 quently of no value. 



In order to keep thefe trees in a proper ftate, they 

 muft have more attendance than the fummer and winter 

 pruning, for you muft go over them in the month of 

 May, to pinch off^ all irregular fhoots, and to train the 

 branches to the wall, that each may have an equal ad- 

 vantage of fun and air, therefore the oftener thefe trees 

 are examined from the time they firft begin to (hoot un- 

 til autumn, the better will be their condition for fruit- 

 ing; by this much cutting is prevented in the winter, 

 which but badly agrees with this tree, as it is of a loft 

 texture, and does not fpeedily heal of its wounds, fo as 

 to be out of danger, when the fevere weather fets in. 



The diftance the branches are to be laid againft the 

 wall, muft be according to the fize of the fruit, and 

 depth of their leaf, as the leaves of one branch ftiould 

 not overhang another. This obfervation will hold good 

 in refpe6t to all trees againft walls. 



The branches being trained as direded in the fpring 

 and fummer, we are come now to the winter pruning, 

 which is ufually performed in February or March, but 

 the beft feafon is in Oclober, a^ the wounds will then have 



fufficient 



