i40 The Fruit Garden. [Mar* 



part where fruit would have appeared, but alfo occafion 

 them to run much to wood, and thereby never produce 

 half a crop of fruit. 



The tree being pruned, let every branch be immedi- 

 ately nailed ftraight and clofe to the wall, at equal dif- 

 tances, feven or eight inches from each other, or there- 

 about. 



Propagating and pla}iting Fig-trees, 



Plant fig-trees where wanted, this being r2.ther the 

 bell month in the year for removing them j for they will 

 nov/ take root in a very fhort time. 



In planting figs, may either procure trained young 

 trees of feveral years growth, or fuch that are arrived to a 

 bearing Hate, and plant them againil the bell fouth walls, 

 at twenty feet difiance; cr as thefe trees are propagated, 

 in general, either by the fuckers which arife from the 

 roots of the old trees, or by layers, or cuttings. May 

 plant young plants of thefe at once where they are to 

 remain, as above, that they may eftablifh 'their roots 

 more efFedlually v/ithout being afterwards difturbed by 

 removal, as old plants ^o not root fo httly as young :. 

 therefore, when it is intended to plant thefe' trees, that ia 

 default of trained plants, fome good fuckers, of a mode- 

 rate growth, and fuch as are firm and well ripened, may 

 be procured either the beginning of this month, or in Odlo- 

 bcr, flipping them off as low as pofiible, with roots, and 

 plant them at once in the place where they are to remain ; 

 or in the nurfery, for training a few years. 



But to raife them by la^/ers, it is performed on the 

 young branches any time this month, or in Oclober or 

 November, laying them in the earth four or five inclitfs 

 deep with the tops out ; and they will be well rooted in 

 a year, when they ihould be feparated from the old tree, and 

 planted either in the nurfery or where they are to remain. 



Cuttings of the young fhoots may alfo be planted now, 

 or in autumn ; and they will be well rooted by the autumn 

 following, managing them as above. 



If thelb trees are to be planted againil walls, or pales, 

 let them be planted at leafl twenty feet dillance from each 

 other. 



But fig-trees trained in half, cr quarter llandards with 

 full heads, may be planted detached, in fome fheltered 



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