Oates. 
laft Catalogue ef thefe late Fruits, continue yet 
in Seafon, and if well kept i improve in Goodnels : 
and from thefe, with the Affiftance of the Nut 
The Medlar arid the Service, mentioned in the 
Kind, and now and then a Pine- hotii the De- OGtob.. 
fert of a handfome Table may be yet furnithed in 
a tolerable Manner. 
Ty igs apt oko ea 
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z he Care and M. ab oui of the Bruit- Garden, and Orchard , for this Week. 
j GREAT deal of. pruning may be oni at | 
this Time : and: let the Gardener {ee that: 
it be executed in a careful Manner. 
Let him look to his Peach-Trees. The 
Time for pruning of thefe moft fuccefsfully, is 
alittle after they have done fhooting. This has — 
now been over fome Time, and the Seafon 
is therefore come for the Work, Every Garde- 
ner knows that in pruning he ts to fhorten the 
Branches ; but this in general is the Sum of 
their Knowledge. 
gnterefted therefore to look into it; 
Matter, follow the fame Praétice. 
they muft recover the Tree; and to this Purpofe 
_. They muft be. informed, that no two a a 
require the fame Degree of fhortening : and that 
in order to know. what is proper, tis mutt exa- 
mine the State of the Tree. The general Rule 
is, that if it be ftrong, they may. be left feven 
Inches ; and. if, they be weak, they muft be cut 
to four. 
_Thefe are “tec Bales by which the Gardener is 
expected toconduét himéelf ; and having no others, 
it is nota Wonder his Bufinefs is no better mana- 
ged... 
There are various Degrees of Weaknefs in a 
Tree; and to every one a peculiar, Manner of 
pruning, fhould be applied. Reafon mutt goa 
great Way in this; but fhe will wander, if not 
ek guided than by fuch vague Leffons. _ 
We vill fuppofe the Gardener is fet to prune a 
Peach Tree, which is weak from ill Manage- 
ment; as this 1 is the Cafe too generally. ‘He eee five on each; which muft be chofen for being the 
many of thefe | 
have their Ends dead ; and the reft are covered — 
with weak Buds, which are neither fit to produes 
it full of fhort fmall Branches : 
good Fruit, or good Shoots. 
What is he todo in this Cafe? ’tis needful to 
enquire, becaufe it is a very common one; and | 
at this very Time, half the Trees in our Rea- 
der’s Poffeffion are in this Condition. 
for the fuc- 
ceeding Years Fruit depend upon this pruning. 
The ae as if taught by one univerfal 
they cut the Branches fhort, and leave on the 
greater Part of them. 
The Error of this Pra&tice appears the next 
Year; but they are blind to it: 
they repeat 
it the Year after; and thus the Tree grows from 
bad to worfe, til the Gardener, whofe ill Ma- 
nagement thas deftroyed” it, declares it old and 
unfit for Service ; and it muft be replaced by a 
Rew one. 
The natural Confequence of their Manner of 
“pruning is this: the fhortening of thefe Branches 
produces new ones in Abundance from them; fo 
They are 
They fay «| 
Gardener look to the upper Branches. 
Tops: 
has done that, let him feleét the moft promifing 
there are for bearing; and, clearing them to half 
that the » Tree is stnaderl, anid dhe orow 
| ftarv’d and weak by being fo near one another. 
Diftance is the great Article in the ftrengthning 
the Shoots: when they ftand remote, they have 
the better Share of Nourifhment, and. the Air 
pafies freely between them, which is very effen- 
tial. | 
Let the Gardener, who fhall follow our practi- 
cal Direétions, look to the Bottom of the Tree, 
and fee what Branches have been made there the 
laft Year. . 
If there be. any of thefe tolerably ftrong: let 
the Buds be taken off, and let them be mild to 
the. Wall, in the Manner of the Stems of new- 
planted Trees. 
This is the firft rational Step toward’ a Recovery: 
of fuch a Tree, 
All thofe muft then becut off, that would interfere 
with the Difpofition of the principal of thefe, in 
a proper and free Manner,. upon the Wall. 
After this, let thefe ftrong Branches. be train’d 
in all. Refpeéts as new’ Trees fhould be. 
There areInftances of fuch unfavourable Growths; 
that a Gardener fhall not find any of thefe Branches — 
in the proper Places; or fit for his Purpofe: then 
let him felect a Couple of the belt and ftoutett of 
the old Branches, one on.each Side; and begin 
the Recovery of the Tree by Binks, cutting off 
all the {mall Branches from them, except about 
ftrongeft or the beft plac’d. 
Thefe Branches.are to be nail’d up like Stems , 
and the fame Care’ taken of them as if they were 
new-planted Trees, to make them. fpread in 
viet. ° 
After this, every Year the old Branches sit 
one by one, be taken off, to make Room for the 
| New Ones... 
This is a plain, an eafy, and a rational Method 
of recovering a weak Peach- Tree; and it is certain 
of Succefs. : 
The lower Part being thus manag’d, let the 
He will, 
in fuch a Tree, find many of them dead at the 
thefe muft be taken off, arid when he 
a Foot Diftance, nail them upright to the Wall. 
Where an old Peach-Tree is full of ftrong Wood, 
and has very little prepar’d for Fruiting, the follow- 
ing 1s to be the Gardener’s Method of pruning : 
Let him examine the Condition, State, and Q- 
rigin of thefe Faults, and he will find the Mifchief 
| has arifen from hort cutting and improper nail- 
ing of Branches. 
This 
