The Gardener's New Director. ^^ 



Upon Soutb-ivtji cr IVejU-^valls, 



Ma feu line. 



Algiers. 



Breda. 



Orange. 



Bruffells. 



The borders upon thefe walls may he ten feet broad, 

 •with three feet of good frefh earth, as direcLcd for 

 Peaches, (lee page 21.) which, for all fruits, is depth 

 fufficitnt, and which fhould be taken fronn a hazelly 

 loam-pafiure, ten inches deep, with the fward to lie and 

 rot for twelve months at leail before it is ufed. The trees 

 heft for planting are thofe which are only two years old 

 from the time of budding, and on good free-growing 

 Plum-rtocks ; but the Brujfelles I would chufe to have 

 budded upon the St. Julian Plum, as it will not take fo 

 well on any other flock, from the compaftnefs of its 

 wood ; or they may alto be budded upon ftocks, obtained 

 by fowing Apricoct lloiies. 



The diftance of thefe trees from each other on walls 

 of ten or twelve feet high, fliould be at leaft twenty, or 

 twenty-five feet, for reafons I lliall fhew very fully here- 

 after. The method of pruning them is very different 

 from that ufcd for Peach-trees. If you plant in Ociober, 

 you mufl: cover their roots with rotted dung or mulch in 

 winter, and they muft not be headed until March, when 

 you mud cut them to four or five eyes above the bud, 

 having planted the ftems fix inches from the wall, with 

 the head irclining to it. Should the fpring prove dry, it 

 will be neceffary to water them all over with a watering 

 pot with a rofc on, which will be of great fervice, firll 

 removing the mulch or dung, which alter watering is 

 to be laid on their roots to protctt them from the hot fun, 

 or fods with the grafs-fide down. 



As their branches are produced, they fhould be nailed 



horiy.ontally to the wall; and all fore-right and ill placed 



branches entirely taken away, but do not flop any 



flioots which are to remain on the tree in the fummer ; 



D other- 



