FRUIT-TREE S. 24I 



the roots are almofl: bare 3 and let them lie 

 open in this manner about twenty days : 

 (if the weather is frofty it will not be the 

 worfe) then lay a fpadeful of coal afhes or 

 lime to the root of every tree, and cover 



them again with earth. 



They muft be many times pruned in the 

 fummer, for it will make the fruit ripen 

 better -, and as foon as three joints appear 

 above the fruit, one of them fhould be 

 nipt off, and all branches putting out of 

 the bearers taken away at their firft ap- 

 pearance, or cropt to one joint in length 

 after: and fuch' fhoots as are defigned to 

 produce bearers the next year, muft be 

 kept as fhort as thofe bearing fruit, or elfe 

 the winds will be apt to break them. 



CHAP. LXXXVII. 



Of Raifing, Planting, and Pruning of 

 Goofeberries and ,Currants. 



THE goofeberry is a dwarf fruit tx*ee, 

 "but of the meaner fort 5 yet the fi:uit 

 is much improved by proper ciattjng, and 

 a good foil, 



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