1 1 6 T'he Ga?^deners Kahndar. Apr. 

 if they do break out, are fo much weakened 

 by the growth of the flocks, as to render the 

 fhoots of the buds very weak. 



Toward the end of this month you muft 

 be<nn to look over your walls and efpaliers of 

 fruit trees, training in the regular kindly {hoots, 

 and difplacing all foreright and luxuriant ones, 

 where they are produced. This is alfo the 

 time for thinning of Apricots, where they are 

 too thick ; for the fooner this is done, the better 

 thofe will thrive which are left on. 



Plant cuttings of Vines in the places where 

 they are to remain, obferving always to have a 

 knot of the old wood to the bottom of each, 

 and bury them fo deep in the ground, as that 

 the uppermoft eye may be even with the fur- 

 face of the ground ; if this be rightly obferved, 

 there will be littledanger of their fucceeding. 



Look over your Vines again ft the walls, 

 •rubbing off all fmall dangling flioots, which 

 are now beginning to pufli out 5 and where 

 two fhoots are produced from the fame eye, the 

 Aveakeft, which is generally the under one, 

 fhould now be rubbed off, in order to encou- 

 rage the {hoots and alfo the fruit on the re- 

 maining branches : at this feafon, a great quan- 

 tity of Vines m.ay be looked over in a very ihort 

 ■time, and much labour faved, which would 

 1. be 



