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O&ob. berry is fine: this is juft as it grows ripe. Before 
- this it is four, and afterwards the Mellownets 
takes off the Flavour. 
A, fkilful. Gardener will find it difficult to pick — 
off a-Difh for a Defert, from feveral Branches of 
a Tree: but it is a Thing he fhould leave to no 
other Perfon. — , : 
on the Outfide; but the Fleth is of a fine red, Octob. 
_ ard’ it is very well tafted, though not fo rich as 
the preceding, 
The Currant Grape how makes a fine Shew upon 
the Bunch. The Clufter is {mall, and the Berries 
are longifh. They ftand clofe prefs’d_ together, 
and ‘they are black, but covered with a fine blue 
Powder, better and more delicate than that of the 
_ fineft Plum. The Berries of this ripen fo reou- 
| larly, that the Bunch may ufually be fent entire to 
| Patel A oe | | 
The Alicant, which fome call the Spanifh Grape, 
is the contrary of this. The Bunches are very 
large, and the Berries alfo are large, but they 
_ We are to ufe every Art now to make up the 
Defert, and to take in every Article. The Nut 
Kind continue good. 
- The red and white Filbert fhould’ be fent up, 
carefully pick’d from worm-eaten or decay’d ones : 
 « they differ in nothing’ but the Colour of the thin 
Skin, which furrounds the Fruit, as the red and 
white Bean. ERGs One O18 SAE Fo 
» There are alfo at: this ‘Time three Kinds of 
Hazel-Nut, that will make a pretty Variety in the | 
‘Defert. a 7 oi 
_ The Spanifh and the Lombard Nut have Shells’ 
as thin as the Filbert, and they bear well in our 
Gardens. : , 
‘The Cob-Nut deferves alfo a Place for ‘the 
Bignefs; but the Shell is thick and hard to break. 
The fhort blue Fig is now very good. It is 
a middle-fiz’d one, of roundifh Shape; the Skin 
is thin and blue, and the F lefh red and rich. 
One Advantage of this Kind is, that the Seeds 
are very fmall. Cine Hak . 
_ The Genoa is another Fig very good at this 
Seafon. It is of a longifh Shape, and of a dark 
purple Colour, and is one of the largeft Figs we 
have. The Pulp is Blood-red, and very rich, but | 
the Seeds are numerous and large. pe eg 
___ The Green Fig is the oppofite of the Genoa: it 
_ 48 round like a Button, fmall, and always green 
Of the Peaches there is one now. in. its. Per- 
fection, and it is a very good one for a late Kind; 
this is the Perfique, call’d, by our Gardeners, The 
is very well tafted, With this we thall. clofe the 
Catalogue of the prefent Week. 
lOO LLL CLEC Ce er eet 
The Care and Management of Fruit-Trees. ; 
‘AAS we have direted the raifine fome Kinds of 
A Stocks for Fruit-Trees, from the’ Kernel, 
we are to remind the Gardener that now’ is his 
Time for preparing for that important Article. 
_ The Stones of the Green Gage and Red-wheat 
Plum fhould now be preferved againtt the Time 
Method of pruning the Peach, Nectarine and 
Apricot to be juft the fame; but there is a Dif- 
St i } 7 is ‘ so By J EP ae Pee E * 
ference in Nature, which fhould make a Diftinc- 
tion in their Pradtice. 3 . 
In pruning the Apricot let particular Regard 
be had to the Autumnal Shoots, and to the Col- 
lateral: ones, from the Sides of thofe of the | 
fame Summer’s Growth ; for thofe on the Apri- ; 
Cot have fewer Buds at firft than thofe of the 
Peach 5 and they aré alfo more liable to be killed 
in Winter. drt ao. 
Of Sowing, 29 Gos so) 0) a : | | 
“To this Purpofe, ‘fill a deal Box, one third Part 
with Sand; ftrew a Quantity of the Stones ‘upon 
it, and cover them with more Sand: then ftrew on 
* more Stones, and upon them moreSand. «= 
~ In this Manner the Box is to be filled up, but 
it is a good Rule never to let there be more than 
three, or at the moft’ four Layers of the Stones, 
and to let the upper one be covered three Inches. 
In this Manner they will very well keep till the 
Spring ; but for Fear of Vermin there fhould 
always be a Trap or two fet about the Box. 
“This Preparation being made for raifing new | 
Trees, let the Gardener come to the Uf of his old _ 
Bride, HEI oval: Ba | they mutt be nail’d up to the Wall without thort- 
Let him this Week prune the Apricots “and ning, for that ufually kills the {mall Branches of 
Nectarines. : 
The Generality of Gardeners dook upon the 
