Apr.] The Fruit Garden. 193 



Of neiv^-grafttd Trees . 



New-grafted trees fliould now be often looked over, to 

 fee if the clay keeps clofe about the grafts j it being apt to 

 crack, and fometimes fall off. Where you find it any way 

 defedive, fo as to admit the air and wet to the graft, let the 

 old clay be taken off, and add fome new in its ftead. 



All thofe flioots which rife from the Hock, below the graft, 

 mull: be takenoff conftaatly as they are produced; thefe, if 

 permitted to remain, would rob the graft of nourishment, 

 and prevent its {h(K>ting. 



Neiv - budded Trees. 

 Look alfo over nevV-budded trees; that is to fay, thofe that 

 were budded laft fummer ; they will now begin to Ihoot. 

 Examine the young ihoots, and look, with a careful eye 

 for infefts. if the leaves curl up, infeds are the caufe of 

 it: and, if not prevented, will fpoil the fhobt. Let the 

 curling leaves be carefully picked off; it will prevent the 

 mifchief from fpreading farther. 



Suffer no (hoots to remain that come from the flock. Let 

 them be taken off asoften as they fliootout, leaving nothing 

 that may draw nourifhment from the bud, 



l^raiijbcrry-Beds. 



Strawberry-beds fhould now be kept perfeiiilly free from 

 weeds. The lunners produced from the plants iho«ld alfo 

 be kept conllantly cleared away as they advance. But 

 where new plantations are wanted, fome of the bell run-s 

 ners mull be fuffered to remain till June to form young 

 plants, then to be tranfplanted, as directed in that month. 



Water the beds of fruiting plants frequently, in dry 

 v/eather, for they will require it ; but efpecially when 

 they are in bloom ; for. If they are not duly fupplied with 

 that article, in a dry time, the fruit will be fmall, and not 

 well tailed; there will alfo be but a thin crop. 



Early Fruits informing. 

 Let the fame care be taken of the early fruits of al! 

 kinds now ia forci«»g, as direded laft mo«th and Fe- 

 bruary, 



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