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3 Ba Bufinefs of one Quarter of the Ground 
is in many Cafes to be continued in another, 
- for Nature is the fame in all Things: thus what 
we direéted to be done to the Hollies in the Nur- 
fery, may be continued to the Fruit Trees of feve- 
ral Kinds; whether they be raifed in a feparate 
Part of the Ground under that Name, or where 
they are to ftand. 
This latter Method, tho’ Yendioien has Advan- 
tages. 
In either Cafe, the Method of Grafting muft be 
the fame as wehave directed already, 
The Time of tran{planting Fruit- Trees is 
fully come, and we have directed it to be done, 
in Regard of many Kinds: the Plantation mutt 
‘be now finifhed, or particular Cautions taken in |. 
the Delay. 
It is not that the Trees will not take Root in 
the feveral fucceeding Weeks, but they will be 
too forward in their original Ground. 
The proper Period of Plantation, in this Inftance 
Ys before their Shooting ; and if the Places where 
they are to ftand, are not prepared to receive 
them, the Trees muft neverthelefs be taken up, 
and laid in the Ground to be ready. 
"The Method is, to open a Hole, large and 
deep enough, and pruning the Roots, to lay them — 
in Sideways in a flanting Direction : their Stems | 
‘mutt be alfo covered with dry Straw. | 
They will thus continue ready for planting ; 
and when the Holes are opened, their extreme | 
Roots muft be trimmed again, and the Mould 
well mixed among them. They will fhoot very 
freely, and fearce any Time or — will 
- be loft by the Delay. : 
Finally, if there be any Article left unfinithed | 
in the Pruning, let it now be compleated, 
for there will be no eee in that he “— 
“wards. « 2 
The F io Frees which: we Ger direCted - 40 site 
anclneie sandal the Frofts of Winter, will now 
“begin to bud, and they muft be watched ; for the 
earlier improper Shoots are difplayed the Beskkl 
Thefe Trees will, after the Management we 
have directed, be now preparing chee Mads for | 
fhooting ; and of thefe the fore-right and ill-placed 
muft be rubbed away as they appear. 
The training and Management of the Tree is 
alfo now to begconfidered ; which, to be under- 
ftood diftinétly, we fhall trace from the Original. 
‘Fhe new planted Fig-tree has its three Branches, 
or its three Buds, for fhooting out fuch Branches, 
which rife in an oblique Direction. In the due 
Courfe of Management, the fore-right and ill- 
placed Buds being rubbed off, each of thefe three 
Branches in another Year is again parted — into 
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three; one fide Shoot being each Way produced, 
and fuffered to remain: Thefe are ftrong and 
well fupplied, becaufe the difplacing of the other 
Buds, gives thefe all the Nourifhment. 
After this the great Care is to encourage them 
to a due Length, and to lay them in a proper Di- 
rection. 
They are to be cade each Way froin the main 
Stem, in nearly an horizontal Direction, but he 
would be very rafh who fhould lay them into that . 
Form at firft. 
_ We have obferved before, that the Courfe of Na- 
ture is to fhoot upright, or at the leaft oblique in the 
Branches ; that fo long as they remain in this Di- 
rection, they will continue growing in Length, : 
but they will grow very little afterwards at the 
Ends, when once laid flat and horizontal. On 
this - depends entirely the prefent: Confideration of 
training the Tree. _ 
Let the Gardener confider what Extent a Wall 
he intends to cover with his young Fig-tree, when 
it fhall have arrived at its due Git This being 
mark’d upon the Wall by a ftrong Line, let him 
permit thefe two fide’ Shoots to grow in’an oblique 
| afcending Direction, till they will reach within eight 
{Inches of the Mark each Way, when laid flat. 
Then is the Time to lay them horizontally. 
them be brought down very nearly to the Level of 
| the Bud, and thus nailed carefully without bruif- 
They will now encreafe very little, and that — 
ing. 
very flowly in Length; but the fame Juices that 
fhould have lengthened the Branch, will fend up 
| new Shoots from its upper Side, nearly. in an erect 
Pofture. .Thefe.are to be the bearing Branches ; 
and this Pofition is to be favoured: as many are 
to be left on as will cover the Wall, and by a care- 
ful nailing, they will be kept eafily in their upright 
3 Growth, and at due Diftance. - | 
«This is to be the Managmeent. of the two fide 
Branches ; and the middle Shoot, or main Stem, 
will furnifh a new Psovilion of Branches at a pro- 
per Place. 
When this has reached the due Height if the 
upright Shoots from the firft laid Horizontals, it 
mult be fuffered to fend out two fide Branches, as 
the young Tree did at firft; and thefe, when they 
have acquired a due Length in their natural oblique 
Dire&tion, muft be reueed to Form, as the 
others. This is the general Syftem of Manage- 
ment of the Tree. | 
It is a Practice with many to take off the Ends 
of the healthy Shoots in Spring : 
value themfelves upon the Management of this 
Tree, declare for ending of the-young Shoots in 
une: The Intention of this is to procure bearing 
Wood for the fucceeding Seafons ; but that is better 
done 
Let. 
and fome who 
