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 fliould be mended to the diftance of fourteen 

 feet from the ftems, where the borders are 

 wide enough to admit of it, that the young 

 roots may receive nourifhment therefrom. 



Mend and repair all your decayed efpaliers 

 with new poles, where they want them, and 

 faften fuch places where the poles or rails are 

 loofe, with wire, which is the ftrongeft faflen- 

 ing. You muft alfo train and tie the branches 

 of your fruit-trees thereto with fmail ofaer 

 twigs, but obferve to place their branches regu- 

 larly at proper diftances, never to crofs each 

 other, and not to faften them fo clofe with the 

 twigs as to pinch the (hoots, when they fliall 

 have grown larger the following fummer. 



You may yet plant Strawberries and Rafp- 

 berries, if the weather is mild, and the ground 

 in proper order, tho' it would have been better if 

 done in autumn, efpecially where the foil is dry, 

 Thofe who are curious to have early Strawber- 

 ries, fliould now plant them in pots filled with 

 good earth, and place them in a fheltered fitu- 

 ation till they are rooted; after which the pot5 

 fliould be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, 

 which will bring them forward in a fliort time ; 

 though it would have been miuch better if thefe 

 had been planted into the pots in Odober,4hat 

 they might be well rooted beforf they are put 



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