28 The Fruit Garden. [Jan. 



ing the fucceeding year ; for the fhoots, when but one year 

 old only, always produce fruit, and totally die in winter 

 following, thoie of each year being fucceeded by the fuc- 

 ceilional fupply of young (hoots of the lall fu aimer to bear 

 the enfuing feafon ; therefore as the flioots which produced 

 fruit laft year will now be dead, they muU be cut away clofe 

 to the furface of the ground, and leave Handing upon each 

 root three or four of the ft rongelV (hoots ot the Ul\ fummer's 

 growth to bear fruit next year ; but cut all the reil off clofe 

 to the furface of the ground. 



Thofe (hoots which are left to bear, muft be each of them 

 ihortened ; in doing of which you mull cut off about one 

 third or fourth of the length of each (hoot, according to 

 their (Irength ; obferving, as they generally form a bend 

 at top, it is proper to fhorten them at or a litcle below the 

 bending part ; and if they are left longer, or that they 

 ftraggle wide and irregularly from one another, may plait 

 them together, either uprightly or archways, to fupport 

 them in an ere6l polition. 



The ground fhould then be dug between thc'rov/s ; and, 

 H3 you go on, the roots that do not belong to the (landing 

 planes (hould betaken away, and all flioots growing in the 

 intervals dug up. 



You may now make fre(h pkntations of rafpberries, ob- 

 serving to procure young plants that are furni(hed each with 

 one ilrong (hoot of laft fummsr, which may be obtained 

 pleniifully from any old plantation, as they alwa3's fend up 

 abundance of off-iet fuckers for fcts, preferring thofe with 

 good fibrous roots, rejeding fuch whofe roots are naked 

 and woody ; prune off the weak tops of the ftioots, and the 

 lona ftraggling roots, and plant them^ by opening fmall 

 apertures with a Ipade, in rows tour feet and a halt afun- 

 der, and two or three feet diilance in each row. 



This diftance appears a great way at (iril, but they (lioukl 

 never be planted clofer, as ths advantage of it will be {een 

 in two year's time ; for when plnnted too clofe, they will 

 in the (ummer feafon form a perfect thicket, infomuch that 

 the fruit will be fmall and not ripen to hiive any flavour, 

 nor can you come at them readily, when Et to gather. 



Thefe plants (hould be planted in an open fituation. For 

 particulars, fee O^obcr. 



Prcparatioiifor Plant atloni of Fruit Trees. 

 If you intend to make ivzw plantations of fruit-trees, either 

 for the wall or for CuMlicr?, the borders (houid be t;enched 



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