Feb. The Gardeners Kakndar. 53 



Plums, Cherries, and other hardy kinds of 

 fruit; being very careful that they are well 

 clayed or covered with the compoiition di- 

 rected in the Gardeners Dictionary, 

 under the article Grafting, that the wind can- 

 not enter to the graft, upon which chiefly de- 

 pends your fuccefs. Where grafts of fruit trees 

 are wanting, they fhould be cut off the be- 

 ginning of this month, and laid in the ground 

 till they are ufed ; for as their buds will now 

 begin to fwell, if the feafon is mild; fo if they 

 are left any longer upon the trees, they will be 

 fo forward as to be in danger of uniting with 

 the flocks. 



You may now fow the kernels and ftones of 

 hardy fruits for flocks, to bud and graft the 

 more generous kinds upon, obferving to cover 

 them equally with aarth, that none may ap- 

 pear above-ground to entice the mice or other 

 vermin io them, which often deftroy whole 

 beds of feeds, if they are not prevented. It 

 will alfo be proper to have fome traps for micCj 

 placed on the beds, that if theie vermin fhould 

 approach, they may be taken before they at- 

 tack the feeds. 



In moift weather, clear your fruit trees fi'om 



mofs (where they are infefUd with it) ; which, 



at this feafon, may be eafily done widn an iron 



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