Jan.] The Fruit G a r d s n. 27 



cr, if the branch is too long or rambling, prune it down to 

 fuch a flioot; and all thofe ihoots now retained fiiould prin- 

 cipally be left entire, and only ihorten long llragglers and 

 very bending growths, occafionally, but by no means to 

 fliorten too much ; for by cutting them very ihort, they 

 are made to produce a deal of wood, and but fmall fruir, 

 and being fo full of wood as to exclude the fun and free 

 air in fumrner, the fruit cannot ripen well; and it likewife 

 renders it troublefome to get at the fruit, when fit to ga- 

 ther. Never clip the trees with garden fliear?, as is the 

 praftice of fome ignorant perfons. 



Currant buflies (hould likewife be kept thin and regular, not 

 fufferlng the branches to run promifcuouily acrofs each 

 other; for when they are fufFered to grow fo irregular and 

 thick, they deprive the fruit of the benefit of the fun ; for 

 want of which it will be very four and ill-flavoured ; obferving 

 nearly the fame order of pruning as advifed above for the 

 goofeberries. Keep the general branches thin, about fix or 

 eight inches afunder; by pruning out any too abundant and 

 CTofs placed branches, and cafual worn-out old beaiers, to- 

 gether with all the irfegular-placed and fupensbundant 

 young fhoots of lall fummer, preferving a due fuppjy of 

 the moll regular ones in vacancies, and a leading one at 

 the termination of each branch, agreeable to the rules ex- 

 hibited above in pruning the goofeberry bulhes ; ?dfo fome 

 ■occafionally towards the lower pans, to be ready to fupply 

 the place of any barren branches or decayed old wood. 



Currants and goofeberries may alfo be planted; and if 

 the trees are to be placed round the quarters of the kitchen 

 garden, or in crofs rows to divide the ground into wide com- 

 partments, fhould prune rhera up to one clean ftem, twelve 

 or fifteen inches before you form the head of the tree ; for 

 when thefe trees are fuftered to branch away immediately 

 from the roots, they, by fpreading out fo near the ground, 

 will impede the growth of ai-y crops that grow near them, 

 and render it troublefome to work about them ; befides, 

 they do not appear fo agreeable as when trained to a fingle 

 Item fupporting a regular head of branches. 



(Generally plant thefe ihrubs fix or eight feet diftance h\ 

 rhe rows ; and if in contitiued full plantations, *etthe rows 

 -^.^e eight or ten feet afunder. 



Prune Rafpherrlcs, 

 In pruning thefe plant?, obi'erve that a frefli fupply cf 

 flioots iifife Horn the roots every year in fummer for bear- 

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