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New Principles of Gardening. 
The fir Peach ripe isthe Nutmeg, at the End of Fuly; 
after which follow the reft in Order, in the Months of duguft 
and September. , 
N. B. That Peaches are infinitely better when gather’d three 
-or four Days before they are eaten. When you gather Peaches 
take care they are not bruifed, and lay them on Vime-Leaves, 
with their Heads downwards in your /rusttery, till they are 
eatable, always remembering that if a Peach is laid on its Side, 
will immediately be rotten. 
When you prune new-planted Peach-Trees of the firft Year’s 
Shoot, (which fhould be done in March,) do not leave zoo 
much Nood, nor cut it allaway, as many do; but difcretio- 
nally proportionate the fame to the State of the Tree, as I have 
before mention’d. ~ 
In the pruning of Fruit-Trees in general, obferve when you 
prune off the End of a Shoot, that you cut it off a little 
above a Leave-Bud, the Slope cut at the Back thereof. The 
more any Tree is pruned, the more it will fhoot. 
When you defire a Fruit-bearing Tree to produce new Wood, 
which of itfelf is not inclinable to do, rub off the Bloom, (or 
mott of it,) and prune the Shoots to ba/f their ufual Length, 
and the Tree will break out into Plenty of Wood, which mui 
be govern’d as I have before dire&ted. 
The Neétorime being a Kind of a Peach, or at leak one of 
that Tribe, is to be managed in all Refpeéts as the Peach, 
if Mr. Bra--/--y’s Report of the Peaches in Jtaly, (men- 
tioned in his General Treatife for the Month of December, 
Page 133-) growing to fixteen or eighteen Foot high in two 
or three Years after planting, without Walls, be actually true, 
‘tis evident that they love a warm Expofition ; and therefore 
we mult allow them the beft Wall our Garden affords. 
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