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from the footstalks, use a little of the Composition, 

 which will stop it, and heal the injured part. 

 By doing tliis, you will assist the ripening and 

 hardening of the wood before the Winter frosts 

 set in. 



When you plant fig-trees, let them be from 

 twenty to twenty -four feet apart, and train 

 them horizontally, which will render them much 

 more fruitful than when they are trained up- 

 right, which causes them to run up in long naked 

 wood. 



Observe also to leave spurs, or short shoots, all 

 over the branches ; and when the buds begin to 

 swell, all the short shoots should be pinched, as 

 before directed. 



As the branches of standard Fig-trees are very 

 liable to be killed in severe Winters, it will be 

 necessary to lay them also in the ground, wrapping 

 them up in hay or straw bands, as before directed 

 for wall-trees. It will be sometimes impracticable 

 to lay down the middle branches ; they must, 

 therefore, be well covered with hay or straw-bands, 

 and the outside ones laid down, going regularly 

 round the tree, and taking particular care not to 

 hurt them with the spade ; then mulch them with 

 rotten leaves, &c. 



After hard Winters, I have frequently been 

 obliged to cut Fig-trees down very near to the 

 ground, and apply the Composition : in the course 

 of two years the new wood has covered over the 



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