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OF GARDENING. 
May. which the budding .may be perform’d, lower } 
when they are intended for Dwarfs, and higher 
when they are defign’d for Standards. For the 
firft Purpofe fix or eight Inches above the Ground 
is the Height; and for the other, five or fix 
Feet. oe 
Let him examine the feveral Stocks that are 
in beft Order ; and mark by different Sticks fuch 
as are fit for one.Purpofe, and fuch as are fuited 
to the other; taking Care that there be in each a 
-fmooth and good Piece of Bark at the intended 
Height of Budding. 
A Fortnight. or > saree" Weeks hence, according 
to the Nature of the Seafon, will be the proper 
Time for beginning this Work, and we fhalll 
then give the neceffary Directions. 
Toward the End of this Week let the careful 
Gardener go over all his Wall Fruit Trees, Where 
any Leaves are decay’d, or harbour Infects, let 
him take them off: where fore-right Shoots have 
been produced fince this laft Examination, let 
him in the fame Manner as he did then, rub 
thefe off; and where fuch grow in a better Di- 
rection, as will be wanted the fucceeding Year ; 
let him now bring them to order, fixing them 
to the Wall. Every thing he does in this Way 
now will be fo much Trouble faved next Pruning- 
~~ time; and the Branches being thus train’d, will 
grow in due Form the more readily. | 
In doing this, Care muft be taken not to di- 
fturb the Fruit, nor even to hurt the Leaves ; 
for the Gardener underftands ftom what we have 
before faid, that the Fruit will not ripen without 
them. They ferve the needful Purpofe of fhading 
them; and they alfo draw sree naereseee to that 
Part where they grow. ) 
We have directed the thinning of Fruit to be 
finifh’d the laft Week : therefore there are now no 
more on the Trees than they are able to fupport, 
and ripen in Perfection: let the Gardener employ | 
| Efpalier Tree than on thofe tall Standards in 
5 | common Ufe; 
his Care to preferve thefe. Snails will be dangerous 
now they are green ;-and a Multitude of leffer, as 
well as larger Devourers, a attack them when | 
they are ripe. 
Every Morning and Evéning, and after veer , 
let him ‘look after the - firft; | 
| | berry thoots more Fibres near the Stem than other 
Crevices in thé Walls, and deftroying Ants and | 
the like wherever he perceives them, let:him fo | 
far as can be _— em the Encreafe of the | 
a | ufual Diftance. . 
warm Shower, ; 
and by ‘timely cleaning out the Holes and 
others. 
. This isa Seafon in ishich Weeds ‘thoor: up & 
freely, about ‘the Stems of Fruit Trees, as well as | 
in other Places ; and if fuffer’d to grow they will do 
more Mifchief than at almoft any other Time. 
The thinning of the Fruit, and this rubbing 
off the Givdsictht Shoots, will have brought the 
- Gardener’s Feet often upon the Border where the 
Trees ftand, and this will have harden’d the Earth | 
about them. 
In this Condition of the Ground, nothing can 
be fo ferviceable as good Digging up with a 
three-prone’d Fork, fuch as we have directed him 
always to keep for this Purpofe. This will at once 
deftroy the Weeds, and loofen the Ground. 
3- 
Let the Borders be raked after this Digging to 
take off the Weeds; and if the Trees require 
more Affiftance, let fome of the light and rich 
a 
ed 
May. 
nial 
Compofts be ufed, fpreading this Mixture an 
Inch thick all over the Border. The Rains that 
follow will wafh in the. Virtue of thefe Ingre- 
dients: or if the Seafon be dry, there muft be 
fome good Waterings allow’d for the fame Pur- 
pofe; and thus the Fruit will have Plenty of 
Nourifhment, and that of the richeft Kind. 
If this thin Coat of Compoft be left expofed — 
to the Sun in a dry Seafon, all its fine Parts will 
be exhaled, and it will anfwer no good Purpofe ; 
but if it be water’d either by the Hand, or by 
Showers, all the Virtue is carry’d directly down — 
to the Roots, the Earth about them having been 
broke by the Digging. ) 
Thus the Fruit. being» reduced to a proper 
Number, andthe Tree well fupply’d with Nourith- | 
ment juft as it is growing to Bignefs, there will 
be every Thing that can confpire to bring it to 
Perfection. 
The Efpaliers. of every Kind muft be treated 
in the fame Manner as the Wall Trees; and when 
the ill-growing Shoots are rub’d off, and thofewhich 
are wanted, and which rife in proper Places, duly 
train’d, the fame Operation of digging, clearing, » 
and enriching the Border is to be ufed. 
Befide the more common Trees planted for 
Efpaliers, the Quince, the Medlar, and the: Fig, 
will all very well anfwer that kind of Geobwth: $ 
and they will give a very pleafing Variety ; one 
hardly knows a prettier Sight than a Medlar E{pa- 
lier in Flower, or a Quince one in Fruit. The 
Fig is more for Singularity than Beauty, but it is 
far from unpleafing. 
- Another Tree not fo common as it ought to 
bein Efpaliers, this is the Mulberry. It is every 
Way preferable to the common Way of plant- 
ing that Tree. The Fruit ripens better on the 
and it is | not fo liable to be fhook 
off by the Wind. 
* The only Caution particularly needful in this 
Inftance is, -that the Border be made wider 
than for other Trees; partly becaufe the Mul- 
Trees do, and partly becaufe the Fruit, when ripe, 
would ‘damage the Cloaths of thofe who paffed 
along the Walks, tf mot kept at fome more than 
The Method of Pruning muft be this: let 
the Trees be train’d up with a fingle Stem, and 
let Horizontals be fuffer’d to. ftand on this about 
fixteen Inches. afunder. 
~ Let the Gardener underftand the Reafon: the 
Branches which proceed from a {trong Horizontal 
will not bear Fruit the frft Year. . 
The Mulberry moft frequently produces its 
Fruit from Buds near the Ends of thofe Branches 
which grew from the Horizontals the Year be- 
fore. | = 
As neither'the Buds of ftrong Branches, nor 
thofe at the lower End of a Branch: produce 
Shoots that will bear, the collateral Branches muft 
not. 
