New Principles of Gardening: 
Melocotognio ; the Germans, Kuttenopffel; and the Dutch; 
ue- “pple. 
This Fruit is raifed either from Layers, Suckers, or Cuttings, 
and delights in a moif? Soil. *Tis beft when grafted, although 
it is a natural Fruit; for by the Check given to the Sap 
thereby, it produces Fruit much fooner. 
N. B. That the Cuttings, or Cions, muft be taken from an 
old bearing Tree, as is of the beft (or at leaft a very good) 
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The Seafon for planting this Fruit-Tree. is October, Novem- 
ber, &c. as for other Fruit-Trees. 
SECT: XXr 
Of the Mulberry-Tree, its Culture, &c. 
the White: The Black Mulberry isa Tree of a very 
ow Growth; but its Fruit is excelent, and ’tis a very 
great Bearer. This Kind delights in good mellow Land ; and 
is beft increas’d by Layers; wherein obferve, that you let:the 
Layers remain upon the Stools, or Mother-Plant, for #wo Years 
after laying, but beft when three Years; for the Roots are not 
perfected in the firft Year, and therefore if you take them up 
(as is ufual) at one Year’s End, ’tis very feldom that ever one 
‘@) F Mulberries there are two Kinds, viz. the Black and’ 
in ten comes to any Thing. The Time to lay them down is 
in March; but ’tis beft to plant them at the Fal/ of their Leaf, 
and to well mulfh them with Hor/e-Dung. afterwards, to pre- 
ferve their Roots from the Winters Froffs. In the training 
up this Plant, you muft obferve the very firlt Year of its Shoot» 
ing, to place a ftraight Stake perpendicular by its Side, again{t 
which the Shoot muft be tied with Ba/, Mat, &c. For the 
Nature of this Tree is fuch, that if this Care is not taken, 
‘twill grow very crooked and deformed, as they generally are. 
when young in moft Places. If Custings of this Plant are put 
, in 
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