OF GARDENING 
i the Bufinefs of Pruning have been properly | | 
manag’d in Autumn, there will not be much | 
Work for the Gardener now among his Fruit- 
Trees. But Omiffions may have happen’d, -or 
the Garden may now firft come into the Pofleffion | 
of one who:knows: ‘how to manage it better than 
thofe before. 
We fhall siseas tees in ‘ing ihe ts ss ret 
what may be done now in this great Article; and | 
what muft, if hitherto not done, be now omitted 
- donger. 
: Kinds, if.not prun’d in Autumn, muft be- now 
- let to remain in all their Rudenefs till Spring : 
for the Wood of thefe Trees does not bear 
Wounds at this Seafon. 
All the Trees of the Kernel | Kinds, ainds 
Pear, and the like, may now be reduc’d to Or- 
der, according to the Rules we laid down in the | 
preceding Doétrine of Pruning; and the fmall 
Shrubs of .Goofeberry and Currant may’be ma- — 
nag’d in the fame Way without Danger. 
We fhall not load this Work with Repetitions ; 
therefore refer, for the Method, to the preceding 
Directions. i 7 
add, with Refpect to thofe Kinds which bear 
the Knife at this Time of the Year, that, befide 
the pruning thofe which have been neglected at a 
‘better Period, it will be proper to look over fuch © 
which have been regularly manag’d before. _ 
The Accidents we have mention’d as pofiible 
Place in thefe: fome Branch 1 may ‘be decay’d fince 
the ‘Pruning ; ; or the Wind may have broke one: 
in either of thefe Cafes, the damag’d or decay’d 
Part is to be retrench’d, or cut out entirely, ac- 
cording to the Degree of the Mifchief. And befide ' 
- this, it is proper to look over the Trees, at this Di- 
{tance from the Time of Pruning, to fee whether 
what was then done appears now fufficient. A 
fecond Thought is in no Cafe more ufeful than in 
. the Affairs of Gardening ; and in nothing more 
than Pruning. 
In Regard to the Stone Fruit nail’d to Walls, 
there are* regular Directions to be follow’d, which 
we haye given in their Place; but in thefe, where 
lefs is to be done, in the common Method, more 
is left to Fancy. | 
Let the Gardener remember what we have di- 
rested in the taking off decay’d or ill growing 
Branches from thete Tees before ; that the wound- 
ed Part were left fecure from Wet lodging upon 
it: the Caution is yet more needful now ; for the 
The Peach, Nectarine, haat and Plum 
Wet of Winter i is worfe ‘than that of any other 
Time. | 
The Saw is convenient for taking off large 
Boughs, but the Wound it leaves is fo roi; ich, 
that in whatever ~ Pofition, fome Wet will be 
detain’d upon it, therefore a Chiffel fhould al- 
ways be us’d to fmooth the Part afterwards, and 
‘the Stump left loping downwards. 
The cautious Gardener muft have his glibte 
Year’s Bufinefs in his Mind ‘at every Period ; “and © 
he will then be prepar’d for every Thing in its 
proper Seafon. 
' Tt will be Time that sia! this Week, dh of 
) the great Affair of Grafting; and if the Winter 
prove a mild one, it may be now proper for him to 
cut them from the early Kinds. 
A great deal of Advantage is loft in this. Arti- 
cle, for Want of the Operator’s entertaining a 
due Senfe of it in all its Parts. The Bene- 
fit that will rife from the cutting the Grafts at a. 
right Time, ‘demands the moft fri Attention ta 
find when that Time is.. 
allotted as the beft, becaufe, according to the Se- 
No fettled Week can be 
verity or Mildnefs of the Weather, the Trees. 
| will be forwarder or backwarder; and the great 
But, on this Subject, it may not fe AS to] 
Art is, to take them off before the Buds are too _ 
| much fwell’d. 
When a proper Day i is fix’d upon for cutting 
thefe, let a Piece of Ground be dug up for them, 
under a warm Wall; and immediately as they are 
cut, lay them in the Ground: carefully, and {cat- 
ter over them a little Pea-ftraw. 
to happen in the Nurfery Trees, may alfo take | 
Tho’ this be the beft Time, in fuch Seafons, for — 
Cutting, it is not the Time for ufing they; and the 
| Gardener’s Care muft be to keep them in Condition, 
. till the due Seafon for their Uf. This will occafion 
their being watch’d as carefully as the Beds of 
‘tender Plants; for if a fevere Froft fet 3 in, they 
require all the fame Shelter and Management. 
More Straw is to be thrown over the ene as the . 
Frofts grow more fevere ; but we by no Means 
approve of the Method of covering them with 
Mats; for it cannot be more effential to defend 
them againft Froft, than it is to let in fome Air. 
Thefe being prepar’d and fecur’d from Injuries, 
let the Gardener look to his other Trees, that 
may have been overlook’d in the Hurry of Prun- 
ing; and alfo to thofe which requiring that Ope- 
ration but feldom, are fometimes left altogether 
" unregarded. 
Of this Number is the Mulberry Tree. Few 
require lefs Pruning, or will lefs frequently admit 
of it without Injury: but the Gardener, in gene- 
ral, extends this Omiffion to an abfolute Ne; ladle 
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