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borders of the garden, to be planted eight feet afunder ; 

 but if on a fpot allotted for the purpofe, they may be 

 planted ten feet, row from row, and feven, plant from 

 plant, trimming their roots, rubbing off all lateral 

 "branche?, and prur.ir.g their longt (l to ten inches ; ob- 

 ferve to execute this with a knife, and not with the 

 garden-fhears. Be careful to thin their heads every year 

 after their fruit is taken ofl", which will make them ex- 

 cellent ; and once every two years give them a good 

 quantity of well rotted dung ; fome train thefe trees in 

 the form of a fan, by which means they fpread at two 

 fides, are thin, when their truit ripens well ; however, 

 on the other two fides, they mufi: be allowed twelve feet 

 diftunce to expand in ; be careful not to plant your 

 Goofeberries under the droppings of trees. 



Currants may be planted againft walls or low efpaliers, 

 and if on a fouth-caft wall, they will ripen very early ; 

 if on a north, the fruit will continue good until Septem- 

 ber. But I would prefer their being planted on efpaliers 

 five feet high, and eight feet dirtance, plarjt from plant, 

 in an horizontal pofition. They bear upon two years 

 old wood, and fnags or fpurs; fo that in pruning you 

 muft be careful to preferve them, keeping their branches 

 thin, and fliortened to three or four eyes above the one 

 year's wood. They thrive befl: upon a light dry foil, 

 in an open expofure. Every three years, thefe trees 

 friould have old rotted dung put to them, to have the 

 earth wtU dug about tliem every year, and kept clear of 

 weeds. 



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Of the C'^njlniflion and Manac^einent of the different Kinds 

 of Hot-beds, Pine-apple Stoves j the Mehnry, i^c. 



I Shall begin with my winter framing for Afparagus, 

 Kidney-beans, Peafe, and the earliefl: Cucumbers on 

 -h.ot-heds, which I ere8ed, by paling in a fmall piece of 

 ground with old fliip plank, near the dunghill, but fhould 

 my practice differ from the common method, let it be 

 remembered that I write for the northern parts of Bri- 

 tain. This inclofure I made fcncible, and had here all 



my 



