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New Principles of Gardening. 
the Death or Rui of them. And that the upper Part of the 
Wall may be ufeful for the firft three or four Years, tis very fru- 
gal and commendable to plant tail Standard-Cherry, Plumb, 
and Apricot-Trees, Gf the laft be budded on a Mu/ftle-Stock, 
and be of the Bruxel Kind,) in the intermediate Spaces between 
. the other Wall-Trees, by which Means both Top and Bottom 
will be filled together, and with good Care, may be done in 
three Years Time. As the lower Trees comes up, the upper 
ones ate to be cut away, to give Room, and at length, taken 
quite away, and tranfplanted as Standards in the Orchard or 
Kitchen-Garden. a ee Z 
Vines are often planted in thofe intermediate Spaces, and foon 
get tothe Top, producing Fruit the third or fourth Year. 
In the placing of a Wall-Tree, at Planting obferve, that the 
Bud or Graft is from the Wall, as alfo the beft Roots, and 
that ’tis placed inclining at the Diftance of eight or nine In- 
ches at Bottom, and twq or three at the Extremity of the Head; 
for if you plant your Tree clofe to the Wall, when it has arri- 
ved to be large at Bottom, it will naturally grow from it, fo 
that you cannot keep them in good Order; and hefides, the 
the Wall gauls them, and they foon die ; or otherwife are ren- 
der’d very weak, and worth nothing. 
°Tis a common Praétice in the pruning of the Roots of Tvees, 
to reduce them both in Number and Length, but for what Rea- 
fon I cannot imagine, excepting fuch {mall, tender, fibrous 
Roots as are killed by the Wind, prefently after the Tree is ta- 
ken up, which is abfolutely neceflary to be done, and-fuch Roots 
as are inclinable to grow downwards, which we call Tap- Roots. 
*Tis evident, that the more Roots is left to Trees, (fo as they are 
not overand above large in Number and Quantity,) the great- 
er Quantity of Juices fuch Trees are capable of receiving, and 
confequently a greater Nourifhment. Ina Word, the only Rea- 
fon for fo doing is, that Trees will live being fo pruned, and 
much lefs Trouble in Planting. 
If you plant Peach, Netforine, or Apricot-Trees in the Au- 
?umm, leave their Heads on till the Sprig following before you 
cad them, at which Time cut them off at about fix or feven 
Inches above the Bud, and obferve, that the Cut is towards 
the Wall. The Time for this Work is March. 
Before 
