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In order to manage thefe trees properly by a thermo- 

 meter, it fliould be removed from the influence of the fun, 

 ctherwife the fpirit will be too much rarified. The heat 

 for thefe fruits mufl be kept five degrees under the point 

 Temperate in Mr. Fo'wlfr''s botanical Thermometer. 

 Thefe trees fhould be pruned, very early in autumn, 

 of all fmali wood, and the large branches cut fhort ; 

 nor fliouid any fire be applied until the end of February, 

 and when the fruit is fet and vifibly fwelling, which 

 may be about the 2,0th of May, the glaffes, or canvas 

 (if you i\(e that on the frames inftead of glafs) lliould 

 be removed, in order to expofe them to the open air, 

 for thefe fruits and fhoots to ripen, and the fucceeding 

 year's buds to form. By this care your trees may be 

 forced annually, without any injury, provided you obferve 

 every year previous to your forcing thefe fruits, that you 

 lay into their borders lome frefli virgin earth, of a good 

 flrong kitchen-garden mould, which if you fhouid not 

 have, make ufe of a little well-rotted dung, the fpring 

 preceding, to be dug into the borders in Jtme ; where the 

 foil is fandy, ufe well-rotted cows-dung; but if of a ftiff 

 clay, ufe well-rotted hcrfe-dung. This preparation may 

 be made in No'vember, by gently fpading it in, that its 

 faltsmay be thereby well wafhed down. For this purpofe, 

 frames of oiled paper, or painted canvas, will anfvver in 

 the place of glafs, and to this I would give the preference. 

 About the middle or latter end of June, the fruit will 

 have arrived to the largenefs of thofe on the common 

 ■walls in Jnlv, when all kind of covering may be remov- 

 ed ; in Augujl or September you may expeft fruit in great 

 perfe£tion. 



However I may be confidered in thefe directions, in no 

 wife to have profit in view, give me leave to fav I had 

 it not in contemplation for myfelf; but a defire, per- 

 haps, of fiiving great expence to fome, and ot giving ad- 

 vantages to others, efpecially fuch as would qualify them- 

 felves to conduct fuch undertakings, at the expence of their 

 betters, from whom they may have both honourable and 

 profitable ftations ; for the labourer is worthy of his 

 hire, and according to his (kill he will expe6t to be 

 paid : my views are for the public, and fuch of my 

 countrymen as have a fpirit of advancing ihemfelvcs. 

 And if, by fome, niy dengn may be confidered as too 



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