252 FRUIT GARDEN DISPIAYED. 



tranfplanting. — The propagation by layers, 

 mull be of the young branches not exceeding 

 a year or two old, or the young fhoors of a 

 year, laying them as they remain on the tree, 

 in Autumn, or February or March, the Item 

 of the branch or {hoots laid in the earth three 

 or four inches deep, and pegged down, with 

 the tops feveral inches above ground : they 

 will be well rooted by Autumn, when, or ia 

 Spring, feparale or cut thera from the mother 

 tree, and plant them either where they are to 

 continue, or in a nurfery for a year or two.-— 

 And by cuttings, perform it in the Spring : 

 cut off fome young firm fhoots a foot long, 

 and plant them in a ihady border, they wi?I 

 be rooted by Autumn, then may be treated a3 

 mentioned for the layer plants. 



Fig-trees will thrive in any good garden 

 earth, as mentioned for fruit-trees in general. 

 Allot the principal fupply fome heft South 

 walls, to have pleniy of fun for ripening the 

 fruit, planting them fifteen to eighteen feet 

 afundcr. 



The tiTCs, when planted either from the 

 nurferies, or of your own raifing, fhould haxe 

 the branches trained to the wall in regular 

 order, nailing them along horizontally at 

 their whole length, five or lix inches afunder : 

 and as they will produce many fhoots every 

 Summer, thefe, in July and Auguil, muft be 

 regulated, by pruning out the fupcrabundant 

 and irregular pi./ed ; but obferving, as they 

 bear on the young wood onlv, to leave a plen- 

 tjful lupply of a'J many of the beft-placcd 



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