512 The Fruit-^Garden. [Nov. 



The trees fhould be planted in rows, allowing twelve 

 or fifteen feet between plant and" plant in the row, and 

 the rows fhould be fifteen or twenty feet diftant, and 

 may train them to fingle fteros of three, foi:r, five 

 or fix feet, and permitted to branch out above with full 

 heads, according to their natural order of growth. 

 Plant Walnut trees and Che/nuts. 



Now plant walnut-trees, and it is alfo a good feafon 

 to plant chefnuts. Thefe trees are more fit to be planted 

 in parks, or other open places, than in gardens ; fet 

 thefe trees at leaft thirty or forty feet diftant from one 

 another. 



Plant Mulberry -trees ^ Medlars, and ^inces. 



Mulberry, medlar, and quince-trees, may now be 

 fafely transplanted. 



Note, The mulberry-trees are raoft commonly planted, 

 and trained for ftandards ; a few trees of them' is fuffici- 

 ent for the fervice of a family, or for variety, and to 

 have earlier and larger fruit, may alfo plant ibme for 

 walls and efpaliers. There are two forts, the black and 

 the white fruited," but the black is the fort to cultivate 

 for general fupply. 



Medlars may either be planted for ftandards, or for 

 efpaliers ; but by the latter, the fruit is generally much 

 larger. 



Quinces fucceed very well in ftandards, but they are 

 alfo fometimes planted in efpaliers, to form a variety 

 among other fruit-trees trained in that order. 



DireSiions for Planting. 



This being now a moft eligible feafon for planting 

 moft forts of frait-trees, it is neceflary to obferve, that 

 in procuring them for planting, it is of confiderable im- 

 portance to have them taken up with their full fpread of 

 roots, all as entire as polTible. 



In planting any kind of fruit tr^es, take care always 

 to let a hole be opened for each tree, wide enough to let 

 the roots fpread freely and equally every way, and let the 

 bottom of the holes be always well loofened. 



Likewife obferve to let the roots of the trees be always 

 pruned where needful ; that is, cut off" only any broken 

 parts, and trim the ends of very long ftraggling roots in 

 general, for this makes them more freely produce new 

 iibres. Likewife prune any irregular and crofs-placed 



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