New Principles of Gardeving. 
Shoots, always chufe the middling Wood, as are full of fwel- 
ling double Buds, for thofe produce Fruit which the flat /ingle 
Buds do not, their Produ& being Wood and Leaves only. 
The beft Tzme to prune Peach-Trees is in March, when all 
the hard Froffs are over: You muft obferve in pruning to cut 
out all dead Wood, all Autumn Shoots, and yellow faple/s Bran- 
ches; to cut your Shoots to about fix or eight Inches in 
Length, and to lay in the Branches at a moderate Diftance, 
as three Inches, c. 
In May you muft carefully and difcreetly thin your Peach- 
Trees of their fuper-abundant Fruit, leaving them not too 
thick, which will caufe all the Fruit to be fmall, and good 
for nothing; one good Peach is better than a thoufand bad 
ones. 
. About Mid/ummer top the Shoots with Difcretion, and nail 
them to the Wall, without any great Regard to the Order, 
becaufe at the next Pruning they will be all alter’d ; and about 
this Time you may begin to introduce the Sw#z to your Fruit; 
but do it gradually, which will give it its satural Colour, and 
Maturity likewife. 
When Peach-Trees have their Branches nailed, or placed 
horizontally, the Sap is retarded, and the Blofoms will not 
fall from the Trees, by being, as it were, ftrangled by the 
Superfiuity of Sap, which often happens in Trees whofe Bran- 
ches are perpendicular, or near thereunto: Therefore Regard 
hereunto fhould be had, as I have before faid, that the Branches. 
fhould be nailed borzzontally. 
Be careful to difplace all Suckers as may rife from the Roots. 
or Bottom of the Trees, and carefully keep all Side-Branches. 
nail’dup, cutting, or rather rubbing offall Buds or Branches as. 
grows forwards trom the Wall, and alfo cutting away all Shoots 
infeted by Blights, Infects, Sc. 
If the Summer be hot at the Time of your Fruit ripening, 
make a Ba/on over the Roots, and give them Plenty of Water, 
fo as not to over-do it, and the Fruit will be wonderfully aug- 
mented thereby. If the Mowings of Gra/s-Plots, Sc. be laid 
in thofe Bafons, it will prevent the (corching Rays of the Sus 
from drying away the Moifture. 
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