ORCHARD. 
Forfyth prefers sets trees to sre bern e ade to pro- 
portion the diftan 7 rows to the 
anagement pm -—This chiefly conf in keeping 
the trees properly pained and cut in; as e this is judi- 
cioufly done, the trees will come into bearing faoner, and con- 
branch may crofs another, but all their Serene: pe 
outwards 
About. O€tober or November, or as foon as the fruit 
is removed, is the 
y then 
r run inwards 
attention may be given to the beauty of the head, leaving 
all the branches as near] Where 
nife ; ragged 
from any laceration, it fhould be pared gently down to 
the live woo touching over each with a proper com- 
st) 
@ 
“s 
oO 
y are fubject to throw out a 
great quantity of young fhoots in the fpring, which fhould 
off, and not cut, as cutting is apt to increafe 
the number. 
The great enemy to 
o pull 
brittle, and readily ee ches. 
labourer is capable of ae fifty or fixty trees in a 
ay. 
oift {pring frofts, blights, and feveral other 
miler ales are highly i a aaa 4 ‘this fort of tree, a 
is fhewn under thefe particular 
ORCHARDS, in Hufbandry, fach a as -are e formed i in fields for 
common wild pear; as fuch, ed 
Linnezus. The native ait crab is fabjeét to confiderable 
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diverfity in the derives of its leaves, and inthe colouz, 
ape, ste flavour of it 
By ing a ad aula the belt of thefe, all our va- 
luable ices have been ee ite , og by repeated propa- 
gation have been preferved for the t 
n be 
msi are 
prifes feme called dernel fruits, namely, the fruit growing on 
its native root, as a diftinGtion from thofe produced by the 
see of graftin 
old forts are the more valuable, and are thofe which 
8, Dymock red, ten comm 
ace names are de{criptive of the fruit, and olen 
their appellations from fuch various and capricious caufes, 
that a corre& lift cannot be ae ae 3 in ahs oe 
the fame fruit b ears a different name, e n the fam 
u my, 
are at this time sg ee ep uleace an res 
{pirit fully adequate to fuch an inde akin 
The pears held in moft eftimation, are the {quath, fo called 
from the pa pet of its pulp; the old-field, from having 
grown as a feedling in a field of that name: the huff-cap, 
from the quantity of fixed air contained in its liquor; the 
bar-land, from fields in the parifh of Bofbury, called the 
Barlands, which were anciently held under ad iar a of con- 
veying the provifion of the lord, or Bar » from their 
deficiency of prod fome particular ponds 3 the fac 
ar, from its richnefs ; and the red pear, f: its colour. 
In regard to the cider fruits, it has been ce. that 
as the decay of the old and moft valuable fruits in Pereford: 
ire is fo generally acknowledged and lamented, their re- 
novation, or the introduction of others equally good, cannot 
be too ftrongly urged; and that the public {pirit of the 
grafting hitherto practifed h 
e fhoots, being unavoidably taken from old 
trees, flourifh during a few years from the vigour of ie 
crab ftock, and relapfe into all the infirmities of the parent 
t his principle, the renovation of the old fruits 
the gene ure, 
aa animated being lives to propagate its aged eit alte 
a time refigns its place to a fucceffor. Mr. ob- 
ferves, that the branch, fisay which a graft is evi- 
dently partakes of the life of the tree to which it belongs ; 
and that it is lee evident, that when part of a tree is 
w life is communicated, whether it be ufed 
as a graft, -or placed to emit roots as a cutting : thus a tree, 
raifed from a cutting, foon produces fruit in pec re{pe 
fimilar to that of the tree fon which it was ta a 
