«4^ FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



For, as neftarine and peach trees are fimilar 

 in their whole growth, leaves, bloflbms, and 

 ^ode of bearing, not diftinguifliable one from 

 the other, but in rheir fruit, which are fup- 

 pofed, by the botanifts, to be accidental va- 

 rieties of one another, and the fame method 

 of culture is applicable to both ; the nefta- 

 rines, as obferved for the peaches, may be 

 planted where they are to remain, when of 

 one, two, or three years old, or more, or 

 when after being trained in the nurfery fhree 

 or four years, to a proper growth and age for 

 bearing ; they v/ill fucceed in any good rich 

 garden ground, or, if poor, may be improved 

 v/ith a compoft of rotten dang and loamy or 

 other good earth, &c. And the feafori for 

 planting is either about the end of Odlober, and 

 in November, &:c. or in February or March. 



Generally allot South walls for the principal 

 fupplv of thefe trees, and fome on Eafterly 

 and South-weft walls, planting them fifteen 

 to eighteen feet diftancc ; and the branches 

 and fhoots arranged horizontally, four or five 

 inches apart ; and will require pruning every 

 Summer and Winter, in the fame manner, in 

 all refpects, as obferved for peaches, — to 

 which we refer for the particular intimations 

 in that bufmefs, both in the Summer and 

 Winter prutiing. - 



In the Spring, wlien the nedlanne trees are 



in bloilbm, and the fruit fetting, it is advife- 



abie to give fome principal kinds, or as many 



as convenient, otcafiona! protection from fro'.l 



9 and 



