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New Principles of Gardening. 
The true Bruxelles Apricot is an excellent Fruit, and will 
profper very well on E/palers, Dwarfs, or Standards. 
N. B. The Method laid down for. p/afbing of Pear-Trees, 
&c. is not to be prattifed on the Apricot at no other Time but 
the Month of May, the Sap being then capable to heal the 
Wound inftantly. 
In March prune all young-planted Trees of one Year’s Shoot, 
which perform with Difcretion, not to leave more Wood than 
is neceflary, nor to lay in the Branches over long; and laftly, 
not to prune them too fhort, to add new Vigour, as fome call 
it, too often to the Deftru&tion of good Trees. 
oF Cdux bX. 
Of the Native Place, Name, Expofition, 
and Culture of the Fig, 
long fince introduced into many Parts of Europe, as 
frances Spain, Italy, England, c. where, by Length 
of Time, and divers Improvements, the feveral Sorts are be- 
come as numerous as Peaches, Apples, Ge. eee 
- Its Name, in Greek, is called cio; in Latin, Ficus ; 
hi [i Native Place: The Fig is an Native of Barbary, 
in Arabick, Sin, Tin, or Fin; in Itahan, Fichi; in French, 
Figue; in Dutch, Feigen ; in Spanifh, Fygos ; and by the 
Germans, Feighen. 7 3 
UI. This Favourite Fruit delights beft in a South Expo- 
Jure, where its Soil is dry and ffony, like unto the Vine. 
V. In the Cultivation of the Fig, you mutt obferve, that 
it doth not delight in being much prun’d, or often digg’d 
about: The belt Seafon to pleut the fig is in March or 
April, when all the cold Froffs are gone and over; and if 
the Spring prove dry, never forget to give them Plenty of 
Water ; ‘twill greatly add to their Growth. In March take 
of the Swckers of Figs, and tranfplant them where required, 
and 
