Aug,] i HE Fruit Garden, 3^7, 



Likewife obierve, at the fame time, when any ftrag- 

 gling flioots have been lately produced : and let all fuch 

 be now taken off, that there may be no ufelefs wood.^ to 

 darken the ripening fruit too much from the fun. 



Cleaning the Bonders about Fruit Trees. 



Let all the fruit tree borders be now kept remarkably 

 clean : let no weeds grow, • «or fufrer any kind of litter 

 to be feen upon them. 



By keeping thefe borders neat, it is not only agree-- 

 able,- in the greateil: degree, to the eye; but a clean 

 fmooth furface throws up a reflexion of the fun's heat, 

 on the tree, which certainly greatly promotes the ripen-- 

 ing and improves the flavour of the fruit. 



Fig-Trees^ 



Take care of fig-trees ; the figs will now be full grown, - 

 and will begin to ripen, and therefore require a due- 

 fliare of fun to promote their ripening, and to give them, 

 their true flavour^ 



All the ilrong (hoots mull therefore be now laid in 

 clofe to the wall ; but tak(5 ccire to ufe the knife on thefe 

 trees but vtry little at this time. Cut. off no fhoots but" 

 fuch as grow diredlly fore-right"; therefore lay in all the 

 fair growing lide-lhoots ; for thefe young. fhoots that are 

 now laid in, are to bear the- fruit to be expelled next- 

 year ; and as thefe trees produce their fruit upon none 

 but the year-old fnoots ; it is the fafeft ivay to leave 

 enough at this time ; for what is not wanted to lay in' 

 at the general feafon cf pruning, can at that time be 

 cafily cut away. 



But, whatever you do, be fure not to (horten any of- 

 the fhoots, but lay in every one at full length, for the 

 ihocts of thefe trees mufl never be fhortened, becaufe they 

 are the only bearing v/ood for next year, and as they 

 bear principally towards their upper ends, fliortening 

 would deflroy the beil fruitful parts thereof, and throw 

 them into a redundancy of ufelefs wood the following 

 fummer. 



Obferve to lay them in regularly, not acrofs one an- 

 other, and then let them be well fecured, for the wind 

 and rain has great power over thefe trees on account of 

 their broad leaves. 



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