New Principles of Gardening. 
The beft Time to plant them is November, (and not March, 
as Mr. Bradley direéts in his third Part of New Improvements, 
Page 50. for the drying. March Winds would greatly hurt their 
Roots: ) Neither will Rasberries fucceed very well, as he fays 
they do, when planted in beds, each having three Rows at 4 
Foot and a half Diftance from each other; for by their being fo 
thick planted, they cannot be digged every Winter to let in 
Nourifhment, &c- nor can they be helped with good Dung, or 
kept to fingle Roots, as they fhould be, to fucceed: (as he calls 
it) very well. 
"Tis beft to plant Suckers, or Runners, of one Summer’s 
Growth, and to prune off the very {mall. fibrous Roots; lea- 
ving the large Roots to about five or fix Inches in Length, and 
the Top ten Inches, or one Foot. 
When you prune the Roots and Fops, as before directed, 
take Care that you do not break off that Bud at the upper 
Part of the Root, as is to produce Wood for the next Year; 
for if that Bud is broke off, ’tis in vain to plant the Plant; 
therefore, as you plant Rasberries, be fure that every Plant 
hath its /eading Bud at Bottom, and then there may be Hopes 
of Succefs. } | 
The firft Year they will produce Branches or Shoots about 
two Foot and a half high, which in the Autumn (if not pre- 
vented) will produce Fruit at their extreme Parts, which I 
believe is no wife advantageous to them; therefore I advife 
that fuch Shoots be topp’d as foon as the Bloom appears, ex- 
cept that the Curious is inclin’d to preferve the Fruit for the 
fake of its Novelty, more than its Goodnefs.. 
The fecond Year they will fhoot with greater Vigour than: 
the firft; and the third Year greater than the fecond, &c. You 
mut be very careful in deftroying the Suckers, not only be- 
tween Row and Row, but alfo between Plant and Plant in 
the Rows, and thereby you will have the Fruit in great 
Perfe€tion. 
Every Year’s Wood makes its Ewvit immediately after it 
hath produced its Fruit, which dead Wood is beft broken our 
in the frofly Weather of the approaching Winter. , 
The fucceeding Shoots being now got up, are to be topp’d 
in March, cutting off all the upper Part as appears weak, fo 
that the Remains. will be about three or four Foot high. | 
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