254 FRUIT GARDEN DIGPLAYED. 



In rigorous Winters, as the flioots are fuc- 

 culent, tender, ind liable many of them to 

 b.^ killed, ic would be of advantage, in fevfre 

 frofts, to prctcd fome of the beil trees with 

 mats naikd clofe, to remain during the con- 

 tinuance of the inclement weather. 



As in fig-trees a fecond produftion of many- 

 young auiunnnal green fruit arife on the Tame 

 year's wood, too late to ripen, and remaining 

 green on the fiioots after the leaves fall, they 

 Ihould generally be pulled off in November, 

 as they never acquire maturity in this coun- 

 try. 



GRAPES. 



/^ R A P E S are moft defireable fruit of the 

 berry kind, juicy, and moft richly fla- 

 voured, when properly ripened. The trees, 

 or vines. On which they are produced, are 

 trained principally againlt South or foutherly 

 walls, as they feldom ripen fruit in tolerable 

 perfection, in England, without that afiif- 

 tance, or fometimes in efpaliers-; bearing the 

 friiit always upon the young wood only, that 

 is, the flioots of la^ year, produce many 

 young fhoots in the Spring, and upon thefe 

 fa:iie ihoots of the year the fruit is produced, 

 ariiing in fmall clufters of bloffom in the bo- 

 fom of the young leaves, becoming large 

 Lunches of berries, encreafe in iize till Au- 

 guit, or September and OduLer, then ripen ; 



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