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CHAP. XII 
Of Blights, and the Manner of Ordering Fruit-TREEs, 
when in and going out of Bloflom, Half-grown, 
and Ripe. 
55 ae oh 4 LTHO' ‘tis abfolutely neceffary that the Pruner fhould indi 
A cioufly prune and nail his Trees, yet if he has nor regard to 
an chai 
THE Accidents that Fruit-Trees are liable co when in Bloffom, 
are Blights, Exhalations, and being deftroyd by Infects: But thefe in 
ate are Bae af called ee se See ; | 
BLIGHTS, are ote. “and Teching ane as i rouse 
Exbalations, are cold drying Winds, and very dry hot Weather; and Jn- 
jfeéts, are fuch as Caterpillars, Flies, 2%. which in general deftroy Fruits, 
if not guarded againit. 
FIRS, Frofts are of two Kinds, the one which is very cold and 
dry, called the Black Froft; and the other cold and hoary, (which is 
the Dew frozen, that falls in “= firft Part of the Night, before the Cold 
| a to freeze) called a White Frot, 
. “BOTH thefe Kinds of Frofts are srsjodicil to Fruits, at all Tinees 
when they happen ; but of the two the Black Froft is the moft de- 
ftructive, and efpecially. when it comes after a Shower of Rain in an 
Evening, before the Blofloms and Fruits are dry. 
THERE 
fee them afterwards, ‘tis ten to one if he receives any Fruits . 
