S7S THE FORCING GARDEN. [APR. 



be much minded at this season ; but they must be 

 more particularly attended to at the time of pruning 

 in November ; which see. The males, which have 

 wings, and are active, will be dislodged by the ope- 

 rations of the engine ; and the females, which are 

 stationary, and adhere to the shoots and branches, 

 if very numerous, may readily be crushed by the 

 finger, or by a small flattish stick that can easily be 

 insinuated into the angles of the branches, where 

 they often lodge. 



With respect to pruning, and training of the sum- 

 mer shoots, the directions given in June and July, 

 for training peaches and nectarines against walls, in 

 the Fruit Garden, are generally to be followed. The 

 expert gardener, and the judicious, will make pro- 

 per allowances, and will readily discriminate any 

 difference to be observed ; deviating from, or abid- 

 ing by them, as shall seem necessary. 



If the trees set an immoderate quantity of fruit, 

 which plants not in a healthy and vigorous state 

 will often do, (that is to say, such will frequent- 

 ly set more than they are able to sustain or 

 nourish,) they should, in that case, be moderately 

 thinned at this time. Also, the fruit on trees in a 

 more vigorous condition should be thinned ; thin- 

 ning most wiiere health is most wanting, and least 

 where it prevails over sickness. And observe, that 

 for want of timely and judicious thinning, sickness 

 is often induced, and the whole crop lost *. See 



* Tliis kind of sickness or disease, as in some animals, may 

 te termed that of Excessive Fertility ; for which, in the latter 



