^^2 The Fruit Garden. [Dec* 



den, that you may not have that work to do in the 

 fpring, when there will be much of other bufmefs to be 

 done, that could not be properly done before. 



Alfo take the opportunity of dry or frofty weather, 

 and carry dung to the different parts of the garden 

 where manure is wanted ; and let the ground be dug 

 one or two fpades deep as you fee itnecefTary ; obferving 

 to lay it up in ridges till the time you want to plant or 

 fow it; which will mellow and enrich the ground greatly, 

 in preparation for fowing and planting, with the necef- 

 fary crops in the fpring, and which will alfo greatly 

 "forward the fpring budnefs. 



Dunging will be necefTary fometimes every year, 

 for two or three feafons in poor ground, till it is pro- 

 perly enriched ; and alfo in fome good foils, an aug- 

 ment of dung, every other year, will be beneficial, but 

 in this, every one will be regulated, according to the 

 fupply of dung that can be conveniently obtained. 



The ground Ihould generally be digged, or trenched 

 up in ridges one or two fpades deep, as the depth of pro- 

 per foil admits, and the diiferent crops require, the long 

 rooted efculents, fuch as carrots, parfneps, &c. require 

 the foil to be broken up fome confiderable depth to admit 

 of their perpendicular growth : befides, by deep dig- 

 ging at leall: one full fpade, or occafionally two fpades 

 deep or more, it improves and in a manner renews the 

 foil, by turning the top dovv'n and the bottom to the 

 fur face, and crops grow more freely. 



For the methods to be obferved in the operation of 

 trenching and ridging up the ground as above advifed, 

 fee .'No'vember and Qdoher, 



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The Fruit Garden. 



Pru7i€ Apple and Pear-trees, 



ONTINUE to prune apples and pear-trees 

 _ againft walls and efpaliers, any time this month. 

 Thefe trees are hapdy, and you need not be afraid- of 

 the froll doing them the leafl -damage through the means 

 ©f pruning them. 



The fame rule holds good now in pruning thefe trees 

 as mentioned in November* 



Prune 



