ec eet a ner ee ee ent 
‘ Nov. 
OF 
Surface, they fhould be one by one wip’d; and 
when any Speck or Mark of Decay is feen upon 
any one, it muft be thrown out. Then the fineft 
muft be referved by themfelves, and the reft laid 
in a fingle Layer upon the Floor and Shelves of a 
dry airy Room. 
From Time to Time thefe muft be watch’d; 
the ripeft taken up for the Table, and any gecgy ? 
ones remov'd. | 
In fine Weather the Windows muft be open’d | 
in the Middle of the Day; and in Rain and Froft 
they muft be kept conftangly fhut. When the 
Froft is very fevere, fome dry Straw fhould be 
{cattered over the Fruit. 
The fineft of the Apples which we ordered to 
CLERC CON et 
W ee ae have been a few Days damp.on the 
GARDENING. 
with dry, Mofs in Earthen Jars, as we dire@ted 
sek Pears; and rofin’d down.. Theft will come 
in very agreeably, when the others are ov er. 
The beft Way of keeping thofe Apples intended 
for the.Kitchen, is to pile them in a Heap, as the 
others, and cover them with a Blanket. Under 
this they may {weat four or five Days longer than - 
the finer Kinds; and being then wip’d one by one 
with Linnen.Cloths, they ge be carefully pil’d 
up in Heaps again, ~ | 
In thefe they are to lie, taki cing ofr the Outfide 
Fruit as wanted; and at all Tine: carefully re- 
moving any decay’d-or bad.ones. Theft alfo in 
very fevere Weather fhould be cover’d with a little 
Straw. 
4 
Ce IRR RESORT shedhondntoctegte de deka ta haste 
GaP, iil. 
Of the Care and Management of Fruit-Trees for this W veh. 
4 
4HE Bufinels of Pruning, concerning which 
we gave Directions in our laft Week’s Num- | 
ber, may. be ftill carry’d on. The Method to be 
us’d in Refpect of the Apricot and Peach, we 
have already given; and the Neétarine being in. 
nothing particular, is to be manag’d in the fame 
a. : 
| Thefe being, the soft valuphle Kinds,.arestaybe 4 
‘ prun’d firft; and after they are finifh’d, we fhall 
dire€&t the Gardener to go to his Apple and Pear- — 
Trees. Thefe two Kinds agree in a great Meafure 
with one another. in their Nature, but they differ 
widely from thofe we have juft mention’d: this is 
a Point very eflential for the Gardener to under- 
ftand, becaufe upon this was encliely ghe Me- 
thod of Pruning. 
The Peach, and others of that Clafs, produce | 
their Fruit naturally tipon the laft Year’s Wood. 
On this depends the Method of their Pruning. 
é 
by this Method they il mr new Shoots for 
the fueceeding Yige 4 vba 
On the. other. Hand, it is. 5d old Weal that 
yields the Pears: the five ‘or bx Years Branches 
yields moft of-all. _ | 
There rife from ethers a peculiar Kiad 6 f Shoots, 
which are, fhort, robult, and: deftin’d for “the 
Growth. of: the Fruit. a 
This plainly indicates what 1S ‘to Pe the Method 
of pruning them. |. 
They muftnot be fhortned, esas that Ope- 
ration would-:make the Branches, ‘Nature intended — 
for fhooting ‘thele. ene for se Fruit, fend out 
more W vikies 
The Caniendeice of this would be! that the Tree 
would be loaded with ufelefs Boughs ; and there: 
‘old Wood. 
Reafon -direéts for» this” “Purpofe, that -their 
_ Branches: fhould be fhorten’d to-a greater or leffer 
Diftance from’ their Origin, “according .to ‘their 
Strength, cand the Vigour of the Tree; becaufe 
would be fcarce any Branches left in the Condition | 
Nature intended for bearing. 
- This ‘Method would: alfo frequently cut away 
sh very ‘Parts on which Blain Buds fhould mare 
appear'd. . “ee | 
The Branches of Pear Trees therefore muft 
never be fhortned in the general Courfe of Prun- 
ing: -but if any one ‘happens to grow very 
large in an improper or irregular Place,- then fuch 
a Strageler may be cut off, to the Place where it 
will fhoot more regularly or ufefully. : : 
This would. not fucceed in the Peach and: Nec. 
tarine Kind, for the Stump would come to no- 
thing; but the Pear will fhoot freely from the 
In thefe Trees wherever a Branch 
runs crofs another, the weaker of the two muft be 
cutout. _ 
Whenever » the Branches ftand too clof, they 
muft be thinn’d ;: for a Pear -Tree that is too 
full of Wood will never bear well. | 
It is effential to thefe, above moft Bther Treés, 
— that the Branches ftand free and clear of one an- 
other, | that the Sun and Air nay have full Paf- 
fage. 
All ‘thofe young Aas Shoots, which rife in. 
athefe Trees. from the Trunk, muft be now cut 
out, for the Reafon we have juft given ; for there 
could never be a free‘Paflage of the Air, .or due — 
- Diftance of the Branches, where thefe were en- 
courag Ade: 
If there be dead Wood i in any Part; that muft alfo 
be carefully cut out ; ‘and all this done, the Trees 
muft be ftrictly examined as to the Difpofition 
of the Branches : they fhoutd be left, for Service; 
at a moderate Diftance, that the whole: “Tree; ahd 
the: Fruit-in every Part of it, may have the Be- 
‘nefit of free. Air; and, for the- Sake of Beauty, 
that: Diftance fhould be nearly equal. 
AT fre “Gardener who pretends to. moft Know- 
ledge 
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ener me me siaicn slaalledaed 
be -feparated from the others, fhould be preferved Nov. 
