24-6 FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAVfeD. 



niirfery for heading down, and trained two 

 or three years. 



Or all the forts may be had at the nurferies, 

 either ycung of one or two years old, or that 

 are trained with good fpreadin? heads, of a 

 proper growth and age for bearing. 



They may be planted either in Autumn or 

 Spring, ?ny time from the end of October, or 

 beginning of November, if open weather, till 

 February or March. 



Allot the principal varieties, fome on belV 

 South walls, and fome m.ay be planted on 

 South-Eail and Welt wails, planting theni 

 £fieen to eighteen feet afunder ; or if any are 

 defigned for efpaliers, plant them the fame 

 diflance. 



If they are young trees, with the bud flioots 

 only one year old, they in the Spring, in 

 March, ihould be headed down to five or fx 

 eyes, to obtain lower lateral fhoots to form 

 the head, nailing them to the wall at full 

 length aH Summer; and in Winter pruning 

 Ihortened, each fhoot about one half or more, 

 to promote a further fupply of collaterals, to 

 encreafe the he;jd in a larger ejcpanfion of 

 branches; and then managed in the ordinary 

 vs'ay, hereafter explained. 



But if trained trees are to be planted, of two 

 or three to four or i'lve years old, or more, 

 furnifned with a head of feveral branches, ob- 

 ferving at planting, if any fore-right and 

 bther iJl-placed fnoots occur, not well fituatcd 

 for training to the wall, cut them out clofe ; 

 ind let the remaining well-placed Ihopts be 



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