New Principles of Gardening. 
VII. If pofible, keep all new-planted Trees well water’d, du- 
ring the Mouths of April, May, Fune, and Fuly.. 
VIII. All Fruit-Trees planted for to make Dwarfs, muft 
have their perpendicular Shoots pinch’d off in Spring, that 
thereby they may break out into Side or Horizontal Branches, 
and form the Treedefired: © ” 
IX. Apples, when in Dwarfs or Efpaliers, mult have the 
fame Pruning as the Pear. | 
X. All Kind of Dwarf-Trees muft be kept open, entirely 
free from Wood, as are not horizontal, and their Height fhould 
never exceed five AM ae ee ~ Bet 
XI. To preferve Fruit in its Bloom, place Pannels of Reed 
(of the Height of your Wal/, and about four Foot in Breadth) 
at about.twenty Yards Diftance from one another; but don’t 
fix them fquare to the Wall, for that will rather confine’ the’. 
Winds than difcharge them: If the acute Angle be about eee: 
five or forty Degrees, the Wind will flide away eafily, whic 
otherwife, when very ftrong, would tear them all to Pieces, 
Eafi or Weft. 
and efpecially thofe of a South Wall, when the Wind is at 
XII. To preferve Fruit from Winds, whofe Courfe is 
not parallel, but rather oppofite to a Wall, ’tis beft to co- 
ver the Trees with Mats, or Sale-Cloths, old Blankets, ce. 
and alfo in Time of Frofs: But always obferve to uncover 
them in the Day-time, if it does not freeze, or cold cutting 
Winds blow, which mult. always be guarded. againft, be it 
Night or Day, tis the fame, all ought to be cover'd: 
N- B. When you nail up thofe Coverings, be fure that 
py ae igen by Nails, that the Wind pais sg re 
oofe, an eating and flapping acainf? the Wall, knock o 
moft of the Blooms fate ite o ath es ‘ 
The feveral Inventions lately publith’d of horizontal Shel- 
vers, Sc. are Of fome Ufe in {till Nights; but when the Tree 
is preferved, as aforefaid, which by divers Experiments I have 
O 2 found 
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