FRUIT-TREES. 365 



&c. muft be mixed with the foil, as its 

 texture requires, and in quantity propor- 

 tionable for the fpace, as before prefcribed, 

 in this feftion, for each tree. 



SECT. IV. 



Of Planting Standard-trees, and Pruning 

 them at the fame Time 5 with their pro- 

 per Order the firft Summer. 



THE feafon for planting ftandards, 

 and the method of cutting their 

 roots, are the fame as for wall-trees -, but 

 their heads are cut differently, both as to 

 the time and manner of doing it, and may 

 for conveniency's fake be cut before they 

 are planted. 



The fliapes proper for their heads are 

 reprefented by Plate VII. and the different 

 figures fhevv^ the intended fhapes of a tree 

 at various ages. 



Before removal, trees are generally fur- 

 nillied w*ith more branches than are re- 

 quired after 5 and as their number of 

 flioots are \mcertain, I have not attempt^ 

 ed to Ihew any thing of that fort in the 

 2 Plate, 



