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| The Care of the Trees. 3 
“MHE Prefervation of the Fruit fron Infeets 
- is now the great Article of the Gardener’s 
Attention ; and he muft continue his Affiduity on. 
~ every Head, as we have direéted in the preceding 
Weeks. Indeed he may the more freely do this, 
as there is little elfe required at the prefent Time 
of the Year. 
The Ground he has dug, dreffed, and from'Time 
to Time cleared. The Trees are, according to our 
Inftructions, clean from Mofs; and the Danger of 
Frofts and nipping Winds is over; he has pro- 
portioned the Quantity of Fruit in every Inftance 
to the Strength. of the Tree; and nothing is | 
‘required “of him but to proteét from thefe De- | 
vourers, what Nature is favourably ripening. 
Three Times a Day let him look over the 
Trees; at Noon for the Deftruction of Wafps 
and: Flies ; and in the Morning and Evening for 
that of the Snail, Slug, and other creeping Infects. 
This taking up but a fmall Portion of the 
Gardener’s ‘Time, we fhall recommend to his 
Care, for this Week in a particular Manner the 
- Care of Standard Vines. 
_ We. have already at large directed him in 
what Manner to prune, defend, and thin thofe 
‘nailed againft Walls: but thefe being expofed 
without that Shelter behind, will pute a parti- | 
cular Management. 
The redundant Growth eae we Srecied to 
be reduced fome Weeks ago in the Wall Vines, 
will now require to be taken off here. 
All thofe irregular Shoots which: the Plants 
have thrown out, muft now be cut away ; that 
_ the Fruit may not -be ftarved by the Derivation 
of the Nourifhment thither, or fhaded fo much 
by this Redundance of Leaves, as not to be able 
to ripen. Some Shelter we know is required; but 
we know alfo that too much is utterly deftruc- 
- tive. 
The true Management now is to take off thefé 
ufelefs Parts with Difcretion ; and from the Pe- 
riod of their firft fpringing to this, they fhould 
be rub’d off at their firft Appearance. 
_ The Stems and Branches muft be fecured to 
the Stakes wherever they are loofe; and when 
the Gardener has done this, he is to clear away 
the Weeds, 
The beft Method is by tearing up the larger 
Growth by Hand; and then digging up the’ 
Ground between the Rows with a Spade. This 
tends more than any thing elfe t to . the perfecting 
of the Fruit. 
; WBE Bufinefs now is to give them their full 
Growth, and this can only be done. by a due 
Supply of Nourifhment, which will be better 
given by this digging than any other Way. 
There is a double Ufe in the deftroying the 
Weeds from between the Rows of Vines; for 
‘they not only exhauft the Nourithment which 
fhould be fent up to the Fruit, but they choak 
up the Place, and they exhale a moift Vapour 5 
both very hurtful to the Vine. 
The free Paflage of the Air between and among 
Fruit Trees, every one knows is an effential ‘Ar. — 
ticle toward their obtaining their true Flavour. 
It is in nothing more needful than in Grapes ; 
and added to. this the Dampnefs occafioned* by 
choaking the Air with their Perfpiration, makes 
it impoffible for the Fruit, though every other 
Kind of Care have been beftowed 1 — if thould 
attain any Perfeétion. | . 
We complain that our Seafons do not favour 
the ripening of Grapes ; but our Management of 
them, whether in the Vineyard or againft Walls, 
is indeed more the Caufe than any Thing in the © 
Climate. 
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CHLORIS, o the KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
Great Part of the Gardener’s Care in this 
Quarter of the Ground, will be for the water- 
ing of his various Growths. The Kitchen Gar- 
den which has been properly managed, abounds 
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at this Time with Crops of Seedlings; and others 
that have been tranfplanted into their fecond or 
third Beds : the Succefs of all thefe depends in a 
very great Meafure upon Moifture; and if the 
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