Apr. The Gardeners Kalendar. 117 

 be occafioned, fhould thefe fhoots be permitted 

 to remain on a month longer. By this early rub- 

 bing off the young fhoots, the fruit branches 

 will be greatly flrengthened, and the fruit for- 

 warded by the branches being laid clofe to the 

 wall, and the ufelefs flhoots taken away. 



Your beds of Strawberries muft now be 

 carefully weeded, and their runners muft be 

 taken off; and if the feafon proves very dry, 

 it will be proper to v/ater them, for when this 

 is negleded they will produce but little fruit. . 



Keep the borders near fruit trees clean from 

 weeds, and large growing plants 3 for thefe 

 rob the trees of their nourifhment. In 

 fuch foils as are apt to bind very hard, the 

 ground fliould be loofened with a dung fork- 

 and if fome mulch be laid afterward on the fur- 

 face of the ground, and in very dry feafons 

 watered over once or tv/ice a week, it will be of 

 great fervice to both the fruit and trees. You 

 fhould aUb keep the ground clear between the 

 rows of Vines in the Vineyard ; and in the be- . 

 ginning of the month the ftakes (hould be fixed 

 to them, that the branches may be faftened 

 thereto ; which is better than to let the ftakes 

 remain to them all the winter, becaufe they 

 would decay more in one winter than in two 

 fummers 3 for the Vines need not be ftaked in 



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