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POMON A: Or, 
‘Root’ caily in ‘the Spring. 
THE Vines muft be cut at a Bud, but the Figs muft not be topped, 
and if their Ends are but four or five Inches out of Ground © ‘Us 
fufficient. 
IT will be very proper to lay a Coat of good rotten Horfe-dung be- 
tween the Rows, which will not only keep the Earth warm thro out 
the Winter, but moift in the Spring, when they are ftriking Root, and 
advancing in their Growth. 
AND if they are fuffer'd to remain there be the Space of two Years, 
before they are planted out, ‘twill be much better, than to remove them 
the firft Year after planting, 
N. B. IF the Spring after the firft planting of the Cuttings proves 
dry, “twill be very neceffary to keep them moift, by fort Wa- 
terings, which will add <7 much to a ie Growth. 
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BUT the belt Way of rail ing thefe Fruits, is by Layers, becaufe 
that the “Mother-Plants are a conftant Support, during the whole Time 
of their ftriking Root. 
THE. beft Scafon for this Work is Oéfober, for then they have 
the whole Winter to imbibe fufhicient Siees, ase for their ftriking 
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THE other Kinds of Fruits, viz. Cherries, Apricots, Peaches, Beate : 
Plumbs, yc. being propagated by Grafting and Inoculating, we muft, 
‘before we proceed thereto, confider of the beft Method of raifi ing the 
beft Kinds of Stocks for thofe Ufes. 
CHERRIES ate commonly budded or grafted on Chey Stocks, 
Rokk are raifed from the Stones of the common Black Cherry. 
APPLES are sated on Crab Socks: raifed from the Kernels of 
the Crab, as alfo on Stocks raifed from the Kernels of Apples, of which 
that called the Paradice, is the beft to graft on, to make Trees of 
a {mall Growth, and produce Fruits in great plenty very early. 
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