New Principles of Gardening. 
and at the fame Time lay down the Layers; which take off, 
and tranfplant the March or April following: You muft not 
cut or prune the Zops or Heads of either Suckers or Layers 
of Figs; tis immediate Death to them, when fo cut. 
The beft Seafon to prune Fig-Trees is in Fune; at which 
Time you muft obferve, that you leave all the Shoots with 
their Tops on, becaufe thofe extream Parts, (vzz. the three 
laft Buds or Eyes) produce the Fruit the enfuing Year. 
Cut out all large Wood, as is too much, which always cut 
off as near the Ground as may be, and cover the Wound im- 
mediately with the Mixture of Mutton-Suet, Rozin, and Bee’s 
Wax, asi before mention’d. The /argef?, or ftrongeft Shoots 
of the /aff Year are what produces the Fruit; all {mall weak 
Shoots are now to be cut away. : 
Admit not Suckers at the Roots of your Trees, except that 
an Lucreafe is required. | © 
If in fune you pinch or nip off the End-Buds of the young 
Branches, “twill ftop the over and above Courfe of the Sap, 
and caufe the Fruit to come much earlier, and in greater Per- 
fection: Sand, Lye-Afbes, &c. laid at the Roots of Fig-Trees, 
greatly accelerates the Ripening of the Fruit. At the Pruning 
of fig-Trees, obferve to nail up, or confine to the Wall, all 
the large Branches ; but let the young Shoots, which produce 
Fruit, be at free Liberty: The Fruit will ripen much better than 
when confined tothe Wall. But in November following it will 
be beft to nail them clofe to the Wall, the better to preferve 
them from the Winter’s Frofts. , 
And although the common Pra€tice in England has been to 
plant this Fruit againft Walls only, yet ’tis to be underftood, 
that /7zgs will profper, and produce good Fruit in great Plenty, 
when planted Dwarfs or Standards; as may be feen in the 
Gardens of that great chet oS of Planting, the Honourable _ 
Fames Fobnfton, of Twickenham. The bef Figs as 1 know 
of now in England, asare really good, are the White and long 
Purple Figs, ripe atthe End of Augu/?: The others, mention’d 
in my Catalogue, are of France; of which fome are, and 
others might be alfo cultivated in England, with as much Eafe. 
as the Purple and White; and that my Reader may be informed. 
of their fevera] Qualities, take the following Defcription:. 
‘he /7gs mention’d in my Catalogue, are either White, Black, 
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