Odi.] The Fruit Garden, 4^5 



The method of pruning thefe trees, may be feen In the" 

 work of the fruit garden next month, where it is fully 

 inferted according to fuccefsful pradice. 



Tr an/plant Fruit Trees. 



Towards the latter end of this month you may fafely 

 tranfplant moft forts of fruit-trees. 



Where a new plantation is to be made either for the 

 wall or efpalier, -the borders fhould be trenched two 

 fpadesdeep: fome very rotten dung fliould be worked 

 in at the fame time; and if the border is not naturally 

 of a loamy foil, or is of a light poor quality, fome frefh 

 loam from a common or field, &c. would prove very be- 

 neficial, if worked and mixed with the earth of the bor- 

 der, together with the rotten dung. 



But if a fufficient quantity of loam cannot be conve- 

 niently obtained for the whole border, let, if poffible, two 

 "or three barrows full, together with fome very rotten 

 dung, be laid in the place where the tree is to fland : 

 this will promote the growth of the tree greatly at firll 

 felting off; which is of much importance : for -moft fruit- 

 trees delight in a moderate loamy ground, but this can- 

 not be had in all places. 



In making new plantations of fruit-trees, either for 

 the wall or efpalier, you fliould cbferve to plant them at 

 proper diflances, that you may have room to train them 

 in a proper poiition for many years to come, without in- 

 terfering much with each other, as is often the cafe in 

 garde;is where the trees have been planted too clofe ; (o 

 that the trees meet and confufe one another, though 

 fometimes they have not been planted above fix or feven 

 years . 



This is a great error, and fhould be thought of when 

 you are about to plant the trees. 



The diflance which fhould be allowed to peaches, 

 nedarines and apricots, is at leaft fifteen or fixteen feet 

 from tree to tree ; though eighteen or twenty will not be 

 too much, yet the former diftance will do very well. 



Plums and cherries fhculd be allowed the fame room 

 to run, though plums will require rather more room than 

 cherries. 



Pear and apple-trees, for efpaliers, fhould be planted 



eighteen or twenty feet afunder at leafl: fome allow 



thefe trees tv/enty-five feetdiftance, but efpeciaily pears, 



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