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be difplaccd as they arc produced, which will occafion 

 veiy little knite-work after their fruits are gathered; and 

 it will be neceflary in gathering thein to be careful that 

 the buds next to the ftalks of the Pears be preferved, 

 and be not lubbcd off in gathering the fruit; for from 

 thefe come the mofl: blofTom-buds tor the enfuing feafon. 

 By turning up their foct-flalks, the fruit will eaiily come 

 off, without harming the fpurs, which produce fruit and 

 blofloms for the enfuing year. 



The beil feafon for pruning tliefe trees, where there is 

 occafion, is immediately after the fiuit are gathered ; but 

 as fome of them remain late on the trees before they ri- 

 pen, if froft fhould appear to be fetting in for a conti- 

 nuance, (as h.ippens fometimes) it will be proper to de- 

 fer pruning them until February or March. 



I would alfo direfl to have fome trees of tl.e Cniffe 

 Madame, and of the fummer Bon Chretien planted on 

 ■walls, which will make them come earlier, and have 

 larger fruit, than they have upon efpaliers. This much 

 ti'ill fuffice for tiie culture of Pears upon walls, but ob- 

 ^txv^ to water them well in dry weather in fummer; this 

 will keep their fruit always in a growing ftate, otherwife 

 they very often drop their fruit in dry fummer*, 'or in 

 autumn, before they are ripe. 



The Culture and- Management of Figs. 



ON the wall with which I crofs the garden, I would 

 plant Figs ; for which purpofs it muft be twelve feet 

 high, built of flone and lime, and lined with bricks in 

 the bell: manner, with piers of brick, and iron hooks fix- 

 ed in them, at every twenty feet diflance, jutting out 

 from the wal! (Ix or eight inches, fome rtout double forked 

 hooks, at eight or ten inches diftance from the top to 

 within two feet of the bottom of the bricks, which piers 

 and hooks are to receive matts or reed covers, to fix over 

 your Fig-trees in very fevere winters, and early in the 

 fpring, which you muH: obferve not to move away too 

 luddcnly. Between thefe pieis I would have one Fig- 

 tree 



