New Principles of Gardening. 
At the End of 4ugu/?, and Beginning of September the Au- 
tumu Pears are fit to gather, which Work fhould be done in 
the Middle of the Day, when the Fruit is perfe&tly dry. 
ey are not ripe, or fit to be eaten till fome Time after they 
are gathered, as a Week, ten Days, and fome a Month. 
All Winter Pears, as Bonchretiens, Colmar, St. Germain, 
Virgoulee, .Lachafferie, Ambret, c, muft not be gathered 
_ till Michaelmas, or Middle of Oéfober; at which Time (as I 
faid before) great Care mult be taken to gather them perfe€tly 
dry; if otherwife, they will grow moldy, and be prefently 
rotten. 
About the End of November the Winter Pears begin to 
ripen, as the Lachafflerie, Virgoulee, Ambret, Colmar, Crafan, 
St. Germain, ¢c. which, with Care, moft of them will laft all 
Fanuary, and Part of February, and the Winter Bonchretien 
till A/ay. z 
In the Autumn, when the Pears begin to drop from the 
Trees, as the Winter Pears will do when their Time for ga- 
thering is come, lay under every Tree the Mowzngs of Gra/s, 
for the Fruit to fz// on, and carefully take them away as they 
fall, to your Confervatory, leaft others fall upon the firft, and 
bruife them. The Manner of preferving Winter Fruit I will 
exemplify at the latter End hereof. 
In March prune young Pear-Trees of one Year’s Shoot with 
Difcretion, not for to take but litttle from them, or to take 
all away, (as is too often done by many-) : 
This Month of March is the proper Seafon to retard the 
luxuriant Growth of Trees, by G@what Mr. Lawrence calls) 
Plafbing, that is, cutting the luxurious Part near to whence 
it fhot, fomething more than half through; which checks its 
vigorous Growth, and thereby is fooner difpofed to bear Fruit. 
If by Mifmanagement Fruit-Trees have many perpendicular 
Branches as are unfruitful, ’tis beft to. plafh them, as before 
. directed. | 
N.B. But this Way of Plafhing is not to be prattifed on 
any Trees but Wall-Trees, Peaches excepted, and very low 
Dwarfs, whofe Branches are fecured by Stakes ; for was Stan- 
dards to be cut in that Manner, the Winds would foon break 
off thofe Branches. : 
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