CHAPTER VI. 



Fruits. Propagation, Planting, and Training and Pruning, 

 whether wall-trees, espaliers, or standards, with an Alpha- 

 betical List of the several Fruits, and with observations on 

 the Diseases of Fruit-trees. 



199. ALL the fruits to be treated of here, with the ex- 

 ception of the Cranberry, the Melon and the Straw- 

 berry, are the produce of trees, or of woody plants. In 

 treating of them I shall pursue the following course : 

 first, give instructions as to the Propagation, next, as to 

 the Planting, next, as to the Training and Pruning ; 

 next I shall give the List of Fruits 3 and, lastly, I shall 

 make some remarks on the nature and tendency of the Dis- 

 eases of fruit-trees, and on the remedies proper to be ap- 

 plied. 



PROPAGATION. 



200. ALL fruit-trees, from the loftiest cherry, down to 

 the gooseberry, may be propagated by seed , and this 

 would be the proper way j but nature has so contrived 

 it, that the seed of fruit-trees will not bring trees to pro- 

 duce the same sort of fruit except by mere accident ; so 



