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[N very forward Seafons this Week is the Time , 
to finifh, all Pruning that may be yet requir’d 
for the Peach and Nectarine Kinds ; ; and when 
this is done, and they are carefully nail’d 
to the Wall, 
they muft be left to make: their 
Shoots, affifting them by digging the Earth in 
the Borders ; and, where the Trees are old, at 
greater Diftances.. | | 
In Seafons lefs mild the Work may better bd de- 
ferrd a Week or Fortnight longer. 
this ; do the Work when the F rafts have no great 
_ Power, and before the Buds are too, much 
- fwell’d. If thefe tender Trees be prun’d i in frofty 
Weather, the Wounds; where any thing large, 
do not well heal; 
are grown too full, the Bufinefs cannot be done 
without deftroying many of them. 
_- This is a very proper ‘Time for pruning the | 
new-planted Trees in particular, becaufe what 
Parts are dead will now be feen diftingly, and 
muft be cut out. 
~ The Nailing muft be done with great Care. 
The placing oie. Branches horizontally is the 
principal Article for their bearing, but it ftops their 
Growth in Length; for in Nature their Pofition 
is upright; and when thus laid flat, tho’ they 
continue lively, they grow little at the End: Na- 
ture purfuing her own Courfe in fending upright 
new Shoots from the Sides. be 
The Ufe of the Training ami a double Stem 
is here very evident. 
planted at a proper Diftance, the Shoots, ‘from a | 
If the Trees have been 
fingle Stem, will reach either way far fhort of 
one another at the Time of Nailing ; ; and as they 
grow little in Length afterwards, a great Part of 
good Wall wou’d 3 left uncovered ; but when 
they are rais’d with a double Stem, fhort Branches 
ferve the Purpofe, and the Wall is foon covered 
with bearing Wood. 
This muft be the Practice in common Cafes, 
but no general Rule fuits all; and he is the beft 
Gardener who knows how to make the moft of 
the Place in the Condition wherein he finds it, in 
‘Things unalterable. 
_ If the Walls be very high, jut the contrary of 
this is wo be practis’\d. The Trees thould be 
| they defer it till April ; 
Cutting damp the Force of the Growth. It 
does indeed anfwer the Purpofe, but ’tis in a 
The Rule is {| 
and if it be defer’d till the Buds | 
: gather’d about their Heads : 
planted nearer one “another, Eng tais’d- with a 
fingle Stem. 2 
There is one great Error in Pile whe are fup- 
‘pos’d the beft Gardeners, relating to this Pruning, 
When a Tree 1s very vigorous and {trong 
and by this late 
clumfy. Manner, and with great Difadvantage : 
the Bloffom- Buds are by that Time preparing to 
open, and many of them are deftroy’ d, which 
the Operator had no Defign to hurt. 
There is no Occafion for fuch Pratices : 
cannot be too many Buds upon a {trong and 
healthy Tree; and the true Way to abate its Over 
Vigour, is to let thefe blow and bear. 
lower the Spirit of the Growth much: better, and 
much more fafely than cutting out and fhortening 
ftrong Branches at fuch a Time. 
When the Trees are young, and. the Walls are 
not. well covered, this Practice is worlt of all. | 
Thefe Trees, in fuch Circumftances, cannot be 
top ftrong: the difbudding them with Judgment 
in Spring, and difplaying their Branches at all 
the Times of Nailing, anfwers the Purpofe every 
way much better. 
this, let a little frefh Mould, from a o Pa- 
fture, be fprinkled in between the Plants, 
they will fthoot 
with great Vigour, and every Bloffom be fuc- 
eat by its Fruit. » 
Let the:Goofeberry and Currant Buthes have 
their laft Drefling this Week , if any Branch have 
been left in, that had better have been remoy’d; 
or any thing left at the Pruning, that now ap- 
pears improper, let it be taken out. 
_ Let the Earth be dug between and round about 
them; and if the Weather be dty, give them, 
at three Days Diftance after this, a Couple of 
moderate Waterings. 
ral too much neglected : 
earlier, and the Fruit will be better. 
Thefe Shrubs are in gene- 
they will thus flower 
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