i88 The Fruit Garden. [Apr. 



tranfplant by the third or fourth week in May ; which is 

 as foon as they can generally thrive in the full open air. 



But if any one is de.rous of having any of the curious 

 forts of thefe plants to produce ripe fruit as early as 

 pofiible before the common feafon, he fhould fow 

 the feed as above, about the middle of the month j and it 

 may either be fown in the places where they are to re- 

 main, upon holes of hot dung, covering them with hand- 

 glafles until the end May, cr may be raifsd in a hot-bed 

 as before direfted, and planted out under hand-glaffes ; 

 or for want of fuch, plant them clofe under a warm fence. 

 See each method as dire^iled in the beginning of May, 



The method, and places proper to plant them in, is 

 mentioned in the work of A%/. 



The Fruit Garden. 



Plant in 0^ Fruit-trees, 



FRUIT-TREES may yet be planted, where required. 

 The forts which will now (acceed are apples, pears, 

 plums, and cherries. But rather than lofe a feafon, you 

 may alfo venture to plant apiicots, peaches, and nec- 

 tarines, or any other forts of fruit-trees ; for m oft forts 

 will yet take root tolerably well, but will not Ihoot fo free- 

 ly at top, nor be able to refill the drought in the fummer 

 fo well as thofe which were planted a month or two fooner. 

 Obferving, however, that where late planting is necefiary, 

 it is highly proper to take up the trees fome time before, 

 to check their ihooting, and lay them by the roots, in a 

 trench of earth, till they can be planted. 



Where, however, it is intended to plant any of the 

 above kind of fruit-trees now, let them be planted the 

 £rft or fecond week in the month, if poiiible j for they will 

 not take root fo v/ell if plnuted later. 



When they are planted, let every tree have a large wa- 

 tering-pot of water; it will caufe the earth to fettle in 

 clofe among their roots, and prepare them for ftriking 

 forth irelh fibres. Let the waterings be repeated in dry 

 weather, about once a week. 

 . New planted trees in general, but particularly fuch as 

 are planted late in the fpring, iliould be frequently water- 

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