2^i FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



or fuckers from the roots of the trees, training 

 them with tall ftems, in which to graft or bud, 

 at five or fix feet for full llandards, and for half 

 ftandards at three or four feet high, and fmaller 

 flocks for wall and efpalier plums to graft or 

 bud them within fix or eight inches of the 

 ground ; and when they advance in fhoots and 

 branches, train them for the different pur- 

 pofes intended in ftandards and wall trees, 

 2s obfcrved for pears and cherries ; they will 

 begin to bear in three, four, or five years ; 

 and when of from two or three to four, five, 

 or fix years old from grafting and budding, 

 they may be tranfplanted where they are finally 

 to fland. — See the pre-vious Gc7ieral Diredions. 



They will all Succeed in any common gar- 

 den earth, and in orchards, &c. 



Plant the flandards at twenty to thirty feet 

 diftance ; let them branch out above into full 

 heads, and only prune occafionally any crofs- 

 placed and irregular branches, or to cut out 

 fome thinningly where croudedly thick, and 

 cafual decayed wood, permitting the general 

 proper branches to advance in their full 

 growth. 



Wall trees of plums (hould be planted, 

 fome principal varieties againft fouth walls 

 for earlier fruit, and in beft perfcftion in 

 fize, and richnef; of flavour, others planted 

 on eail and wellerly walls, &c. to ripen fruit 

 in fuccefiion ; and the whole have the branches 

 trained horizontally to the wall four or live 

 inches afunder, and all principally at their 

 natural or full length, that they may produce 

 fruit fpurs plentifully to their utmofl extent, 



agreeably 



