PRUIT GAP.DtN DISPLAYED. 2?3 



agreeably to their natural order of bearing 

 btforc explained : and that to prcferve thfia 

 regular and fruitful, they muil be pruned 

 every Summer and Winter : in Summer, to cut 

 out the fuperfluous or over-abuudant young 

 wood, and fore-right and other ill-plaf:ed 

 Aoots of the year; the others retained, not 

 (hortened, and nailed in clofc : and in the 

 Winter pruning, obferve, that ai the fame 

 branches, when of a bearing ftite, continue 

 fruitful feveral years, they mult be retained, 

 and only fuch as cafually become of an un- 

 fruitful nature, &c. cutout, and young Ihoots 

 refervcd to fupply their places, and in vacant 

 parts, with a leading fhoof to each branch, 

 cutting out all the others, as explained for 

 /Apples and Fears : the retained fuoots left in- 

 tire, and the whole nailed in regularly. 



Plums may alfo be planted in efpaliers, and 

 managed as above. 



Early plums are obtained by having fome 

 of the choiceft forward forts planted in the 

 borders of a fruit forcing Itove, and managed 

 as mentioned for early cherries and peacneb 

 in forcing houfes. 



PEACHES. 



p E A C H E S -are choice kinds of flone 

 fruit, of many fine varieties all of a 

 tender nature, that the trees are. always 

 trained againft warm fouth walls in the full 

 i'i:^n, both for the protection of the blcfibm, 

 and young fruit appearing early in the 

 Spring, and to forward the fruit in its ad- 

 X 3 vancing 



