262 A TREATISE OF 



their names mentioned, for which reafon I 

 will not enter upon many particulars; but 

 this I will fay, that in November 1750, I 

 prepared a border for a gentleman, and 

 planted it with fruit-trees of feveral forts. 

 Sixteen of them are peaches and neclarines, 

 which have all bore fruit, many of them 

 the fecond year, and never had the end of 

 a branch killed 5 moft of them are very 

 extenfive trees, and have been planted but 

 four years, and under my care, 



CHAP. XCII. 



How to preferve Bloflbms, and young 

 Fruit from Frofts. 



THE firft thing deftruftlve to fruits 

 is violent frofts in the fpring, 

 which kill the bloflbms and young fruit, 

 efpecially of the apricot, for it bloflbms 

 earlier than any other fort. Trees grow- 

 ing againft walls may, in fome meafure, 

 be preferved from this mifchief^, by fhad- 

 ing them with branches of laurel, yew, 

 or beech, and in calm weather there is 

 Hiuch fruit faved by this means 3 but if the 



feafou 



