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The Fruit-Garpen Jdnftrated. 
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N. B. "JIS very ferviceable to give the Trees a gentle Rofre/bing 
of Water, at the Time you begin to fereen them from the Sun, 
which they will freely imbibe, and very much ftrengthens Nature in 
her Produftions. 
ABOUT the 20th of Fume this Work is over, and as then the 
Fruits are beginning to fwell away for ripening, we fhould now thin 
them for good, taking away the leaft. promifing ones, and Saag 
the beft. 
THE Mafculine Apricot fhonld be feft“at’ or ‘about the Diftances 
that BC, Fig. IV. Plate XV. are, which is two Inches and a quarter ; 
but the Turkey Apricots muft have a larger Diftance, as being a larger 
Fruit, and therefore we muft allow them three Inches, as the Diftance’ A B; 
and the Roman Apricot, whofe Magnitude is a Mean between the 
two other Extremes, fhould be left at about two Inches and three 
quarters. | 
_ AND as foci differ i in 1 their Biagnitades and therefore tequire 
more or 1é"RoonrforPerfpiration ;_ fo do Peaches likewife : the {mall 
Kinds may be lef at two we pens thofe of a muddling Growth 
at four Inches; and our very beft and largeft not nearer than fix 
Inches. 
SOME Kind of Pears, as the fags Summer Bergamot, 
gore. are very apt to produce theit Fruits in\Clufters; but they 
are much the beft when each Clufter is teduced to two Pears 
only, excepting when the Clufters are very thinly diftributed on 
the Tree ; and at fuch Times they may be left in greater Number, 
as three, four, dc. according to their Diftance, and Strength of the 
Tree. 
BUT where there is a fall ae "tis belt to leave them fingle, ot 
double at moft. 
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BY Fe feveral Proofs of the = Chapter, ‘tis olin that 
the Leayes of Fruit~Trees are vaftly ferviceable in drawing up Nou- 
rifhment 
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