5o6 The Fruit Garden. [Nov. 



Plant Wall- trees. 



Now ftill tranfplant, for the walls, where wanted, 

 peach, nedarine, and apricot-trees; alfo plums and 

 cherries, &c. allotting the three former principally the 

 beil fouth walls ; and let fome of the two latter have 

 alfo a fouth afpedl ; and may likewife plant fome of ail 

 the forts in well and eaft expofures. 



Let the borders where thefe trees are to be planted be 

 prepared in a proper manner. 



Where an entire new plantation is to be made, let the 

 borders be trenched all the way about two fpades deep : 

 and where an addition of frelh earth is wanted, let fome 

 be added at the fame time : loam is beft, if it can be had, 

 with a quantity of very rotten dung. 



But where only a few trees are wanted in different 

 places, in fuch cafe, that part of the border where the 

 trees are to Hand, need only, to be trenched, adding rotten 

 dung and a barrow full or two of good loam, or other frelh 

 earth. 



The trees fhould be planted at the diftanxre of at leaft 

 fifteen or eighteen feet from one another, with the ftem 

 of each tree about four inches from the wall and inclin- 

 ing thereto with the head. 



Prune Apple, Plum, and Pear-trees againji Walls and on 

 Efpaliers, 



Prune plum, apple, and pears, both againft walls and 

 on efpaliers : this operation may be performed on thefc 

 trees any time this momth. 



In pruning the plum, apple and pear-trees againft 

 walls or efpaliers, obferve that as the fame bearers re- 

 main many years of a fruitful ftate, let only any cafual 

 worn out wood thereof, or any very irregular or crowd- 

 ing branches and decayed parts be cut out, together with 

 all the fuperfluous and^ ill-placed young fhoots of laft 

 fummer. 



But it muft be obferved, where a fupply of young bear- 

 ing wood is wanting in any part of thefe trees, that fome 

 of the beft fituated (hoots of the lall: fummer's growth, 

 muft now be left in tvtry fuch place : thefe fhoots are not. 

 to be fhortened, but each muft be laid in at full length; 

 and, according as they advance in length, muft ftiJl be 

 trained to the wall or efpalier, without being reduced in 

 their length in any future pruning, either in fummer or 

 winter, where there is room to extend them. 



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