Feb. The Gardeners Kalendar. 5 1 



Work to be done in the Fruit-Garden. 



You may now continue to prune fuch of 

 your fruit trees as were not before pruned, 

 either againft walls, efpaliers, or ftandards, ob- 

 ferving to prune the more hardy forts firft, and 

 let the tender kinds alone till laft, when there 

 will be lefs danger of their fufFering by cold. 

 And where any trees are too luxuriant, they 

 {hould be the laft pruned -, but thofe which 

 are now pruned fhould not be nailed to the 

 wall till the beginning of next month, for the 

 branches ftanding from the wall will keep their 

 flower buds from opening too foon. 



The Fig trees, which were covered in 

 frofty weather to protedt their tender branches 

 from injury, {hould be opened in warm wea- 

 ther to admit frefh air -, otherwife the (hoots of 

 the former year will be apt to grow mouldy, 

 which would decay them, whereby the trees 

 will be deprived of fruit the following fcafon, 

 but if the froft returns they muft be covered 

 again, otherwife they will be in more danger of 

 having their tender branches and the fruit de- 

 ftroyed, than thofe which were never covered. 



Whenever the frames of your efpaliers are 

 decayed, and have not been repaired the 



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