THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



You may go through them in harvest, and purge 

 the fruit of superfluous leaves, which hinders the 

 sun; but do it so, as there may be leaves sufficient 

 to screen the fruit, and cut quite off the lustie shoots 

 of this second spring, which rob the tree and fruit. 



As for goosberrie and curran-standards, train 

 them to a foot stem, with a handsome round, but 

 thin head ; these at walls, half a foot stem, with a 

 well-spread head, supported with rods laid across, 

 fastened with nails and tags. Rasps may grow in 

 shadowy bordures or beds, a foot distance, kept 

 clean of suckers, weeds and dead wood. 



But because some years, in some places, we have 

 ripe grapes, especially what goes under the name 

 of f r ontinak ; therefore if you think a tree or two of 

 them worth your while, plant them at a south-wall, 

 in a pure and fine mould, not wet, sour and croud, 

 but a light sweet soil, mixt with some cow's man- 

 ure, rotted in heaps with the mould. Plant ebb, and 

 trench not deep ; prune them every year, low in 

 February, and at the true mid-summer. Cut off the 

 lustie young shoots and tendralls with sheers be- 

 twixt the second and third joynt above the fruit, 

 and in August purge it of superfluous leaves, but 

 reserve so many as may screen the fruit a little. 



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