DecJ The Fruit Garden. 5^^ 



Prune Vines, 



Vines agalnll walls, or in the vineyard, may now like- 

 wife be pruned ; and the fame method is to be pradifed 

 in pruning vines this month as in the lall;. 



Prune Apricot trees. 



Peaches, nedlarines, apricots, plums, and cherry-trees, 

 may alfo iUll be pruned; and it may be done any time 

 in this month, without much danger of injuring the 

 trees by the operation, even if the weather fliould be' 

 frofty. 



Thefe trees are rather tenderer than apples and pears ^ 

 but if the weather be not very fevere, the pruning and 

 nailing of them may be forwarded in any of the winter 

 months, without running the leaft hazard of their being 

 any ways damaged. Obferve the f^'me method of prun- 

 ing all thefe forts as in the two lall months. And as is 

 i\x\\y explained iw January and February^ &cQ., 



Let every tree, according as it is pruned, be imme- 

 diately nailed up in a neat and regulaj- manner. 



Standard Fruit trees. 



Now is the time to examine ftandard fruit-trees, either 

 in the garden or in the orchard, to cut out all ufelefs 

 wood and ill growing branches. 



Where the branches of thefe trees ftand too clofe, in 

 a crouded manner, let them be thinned ; obferving to 

 cut out fuch as grow the moll irregular; and where 

 any large branch grows acrofs or interferes much with 

 any of the others, in an irregular diredlion, let fuch a 

 branch be cut out. 



Let the fmaller branches, towards the upper parts of 

 the tree, be alfo examined ; and, when they are crowd- 

 ed, let forae of thefe alfo be cut away. 



Thus let all kinds of ftandards, always have the ge- 

 neral branches kept moderately thin and at regular dif- 

 tances ; and they will not fail to produce abundantly, 

 and the fruit will always be large and handfome. 



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