7S The Fruit Garden. [Feb. 



Plant cuttings of vines to raife a fupply of new plants 

 where required. See next month. 



Prune and plant Goofeberry and Currant-trees. 



Goofeberries and currants fhould be pruned now, if 

 that work was omitted in the former month. In pruning 

 thefe fhrubs, obferve to cut away all ill-growing 

 branches ; that is, fuch as grow acrofs, or advance in a 

 ftraggling manner from the reft. 



Where the branches in general ftand fo clofe as to in- 

 terfere with each other, let them be thinned out to pro- 

 per and equal diftances, f) that every branch may ftand 

 clear of the other. Leave the branches in general kven 

 or eight inches from each other at leaft. See the Fruit 

 Garden of laft month and Ociobery for more particulars in 

 pruning thefe forts. 



Let thefe fhrubs be always trained with one ftem, at 

 leaft a foot from the ground, as dire(5led in the former 

 month. 



Goofeberry and currant-trees may be plante4 any tim« 

 in this month, where required. Seven or eight feet a- 

 funder is the proper diftance, and they Ihould never be 

 planted clofer. 



For the method of propagating thefe by cuttings and 

 fuckers, fee the work of the Nurfery in this, or fome 

 other of the winter and fpring months. 



Re/pberries. 



Rafpberries, where they remain unpruned, ftiould, 

 if poflible, be pruned this month. In pruning rafpber- 

 ries, obferve to clear away all the old or dead wood which 

 bore the fruit Jaft year, and to leave three, four, or five 

 of the ftrongeft of the laft year's Ihoots, ftanding on each 

 root, to bear fruit the next fummer : all above that number, 

 on every root, muft be cut away clcfe to the furface of the 

 ground, and all ftraggling fhoots mull alfo be taken away. 

 Each of the fhoots which are left Ihould be ftiortened, 

 obferving to cut ofr about one third or one fourth of their 

 original iengtii. 



The flioots of each root, if confiderably long, may be 

 afterwards plaited together, for by that method they fup- 

 port one another, fo as not to be borne down in fummer, 

 by the weiirht of heavy raius, or violent winds. 



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