Instructions for Pruning, Budding, &c. xxxi 



garden from its natural ftate ; the next care to be taken 

 of your plantation, is to defend the roots from the froft, 

 which may be effeaually done, by laying tanner's bark 

 over the furface of the beds; this care mufl: not be omit- 

 ted with the Cbilii otherwile you may lofe them : Saw- 

 duft, or fca-coal afhes may be ufed, when the bark is 

 not to be had. In fummer you muft keep them clear of 

 Aveeds and runners, which fhould be removed as tafl: as 

 they appear; if this dire<5lion is attended to, you may 

 promife yourfeif fine large fruit ; and as the old plants 

 are the bearers, you mull: keep them clear of fuckers, 

 which would otherwile deprive them ot their nourifh- 

 ment. A plantation will not hold longer than three years, 

 therefore a provifion fhould be made, by planting other 

 beds with the fuckers that are drawn from next the mo- 

 ther plant, to be fet in frefh ground. 



In autumn you are again to take off what runners have 

 been produced, with decayed leaves and weeds, digging 

 up the paths, where the weeds are to be buried, and if 

 lome frefh earth is laid over the furface between the 

 plants, this will much flrengthen them againfl the fol- 

 lowing fpring; and after this, if fome rotten tanner's 

 bark is alfo made ufc of in the fame way, it will be 

 better. 



In the fpring following, as foon as the frofls are over, 

 the furface of the ground is to be forked with a narrow 

 fork, to loofen the earth, and break the clods; and in 

 this operation t!ie bark being worked in, will be of fer- 

 vice, efpeciallv in Ifrong ground; and to have this fruit 

 in the higheft elegance, al)ont the end of March or the 

 beginning of April, I would advife the furface to be co- 

 vered with mois, which will anlwer the purpofe not on- 

 ly of keeping the beds moifl, but out of danger of hav- 

 ing the earth wafhed into the fruit by heavy rains. 



The Chili is found to fucceed beft in very llrong brick 

 earth, approaching near to clay. 



tSloch, is a term ufuallv given to trees which are to be 

 grafted, and arc either old trees, whofe fruits are to he 

 changed, or young ones that have been railed in nurfe- 

 ries, w hich in the former muft be on branches, and on 

 Uich as are young, hcalthv, and well fiiuated, and have 



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