FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 23l 



order, only to prune any irregular growth, as 

 may be required, to give the head a fomewhat 

 regular ihape ; likewife may train Tome with 

 Ihort Hems, to branch out low for wall-trees 

 and efpalie/s. 



The trees raifed as above, to a proper 

 growth, with a tolerable head of young 

 branches, may be planted where required in 

 Autumn or Spring, any time from Odober 

 till March or April. 



The Handards may be planted in any free 

 fituation in the kitchen or p!eafure garden, 

 twenty to thirty or forty feet diitance ; aad 

 are frequently planted on fomc grafs-plat or 

 lawn, &c. or otherwife, when the trees arrive 

 to bearing, -lie ground under them is fome- 

 times laid with grafs to fome confiderablfe 

 width, in order that as rhe berries, when full 

 ripe, are apt to drop off confiderably, by 

 wind, rain, and by moving the branches in 

 gathering, and falling on the clean foft fward, 

 they may be occaficnally gathered up, if re- 

 quired, in good condition for eating. 



.-i tree or two, or more, as required, being 

 raifed in the wall-tree order, may be planted 

 againft a South wall, thfe branches trained 

 thereto horizontally, five or fix inches afunder. 

 The) will prt^cuce fruit earlier, and in foriie 

 improved fize and flavour ; and which will 

 require pruning annual^-, , in bummer and 

 Winter, nearly as di reeled for peaches and 

 apricots, preserving young wood of every 

 year for principal bearing, but not generally 

 B b 3 fhortened;^ 



