Jan. The Gardeners Kalendar. 15 

 Rafpberries \ but ftone fruit (which was not 

 pruned in autumn) iLould be deferred until 

 the end of the next month, or the beginning 

 of March ; becaufe if hard froft fliould follow 

 foon after they are pruned, it will penetrate 

 the wound of the tender fhoots, and injure 

 them.. 



In moid weather you may clear your fruit- 

 trees from mofs, wherever they are infefted 

 with it ; which may now be eafily fcraped oiF 

 with iron inftruments, made hollow in fuch a 

 manner as to fit the branches of the trees; but 

 thefe inftruments mufi: not be made too (harp, 

 left, by being incautioufly ufed, they iliouid 

 wound the bark of the trees. 



Cut grafts from all the forts of early fruits 

 in niild weather, toward the end of this month, 

 or the beginning of next, according as the fea- 

 fon is more or Icfs forward, laying them in 

 the earth clofe lo a di-y wall or pale ; and^ if 

 the weather (liould be fevere, they il^ould be 

 covered with litter or liraw, to proted them 

 from injury. The reafon for cutting them fo 

 early, is to prevent their buds from fwelling too 

 much ; therefore, as the winter proves the more 

 orlefs fevere, fo you muft bedireded to cut the 

 grafts fooner- or later, according as the trees a^e 

 difpofed for budding. In the choice of thele^ 



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