The FRu1tT-GarvDeEN Jiuftrated. 
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THE Seafons for Planting Fruit-Trees, are, Oéfober and February ; 
the firft in Lands that are moderately light and warm, the laft in Lands 
that are cold and wet: 
TREES planted in light warm Soils, in Ofober, or fooner if the 
Seafon permits, will {trike Root before the Winter comes on, and vi- 
goroufly fhoot in the Spring : But if Trees are planted at that Seafon in 
very wet and cold Lands, the too much Moifture will rot their Roots, 
or at leaft chill them fo very much that they very feldom recover it. 
ALL new planted Trees, of both Seafons of Planting, fhould be 
kept waterd in March and April, when thofe Months prove dry, or 
otherwife they feldom make good Shoots the firft Year, *Tis abfolutely 
neceflary to cover the Surface of the Earth, at leaft one Foot about the 
Stems of the Trees, with well rotted Horfe-dung, plac’d in the Form of 
a Cup, the better to receive the Water when any is given ; which Dung 
not only preferves the Moifture from being fuddenly exhaled away, but 
communicates a Nourifhment at watering alfo. 
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_.WHEN jou plant Wall Trees, place their Roots about nine Inches 
or 2 Foot from the Watts“wielewehei ds.swithin.an.tInch. the eof : For 
when their Roots are planted clofe to the Wall, as is commonl 
the Ignorant, their Bodies burft out from the fame as they increafe in - 
Magnitude, and thereby cannot be kept in a handfome clofe Order. 
THE Heads of Wall-Trees at Planting fhould be reduc’d to the firft 
four Side Buds, above the Graft or Place of Inoculation, becaufe that 
from four Shoots we may form a good Tree. 
ALL forward Buds fhould be ilplced as foon_as they begin to 
hoot, that thofe which lie parallel to the Wall, may receive the full 
Benefit of the Nourifhment. ’ % ae ae 
IF the firft Shoots appear to be very ftrong and luxurious, when 
they have form’d four Buds, nip off their Ends, which will oblige Nature 
to force out a Branch at every Bud, and fo by diftributing the Sap of 
each Branch in four {mall ones, they will become fruitful, and not luxu- 
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