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FRUITS. 



[CAAP. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Fruits. Propagation, Planting, Training and Pruning, whether 

 wall-trees, espaliers, or standards, with an Alphabetical List 

 of the several Fruits, and with observations on the Diseases 

 of Fruit-trees. 



200. All the fruits to be treated of here, with the exception of 

 the cranberry, the melon, and the strawberry, are the produce of 

 trees, or of woody plants. In treating of them I shall pursue the 

 following course : first, give instructions as to the propagation, 

 next as to the planting, next as to the training and pruning ; next 

 I shall give the list of fruits ; and, lastly, I shall make some re- 

 marks on the nature and tendency of the diseases of fruit-trees, 

 and on the remedies proper to be applied. 



PROPAGATION. 



201. All fruit-trees, from the loftiest cherry down to the 

 gooseberry, may be propagated by seed ; and this would be the 

 proper way ; but nature has so contrived it that the seed of 

 fruit-trees will not bring trees to produce the same sort of fruit, 

 except by mere accident ; so that gardeners are compelled, in 

 order to ensure the sort of fruit which they wish to have, to raise 

 the trees from some part or other of the wood of the tree the like 

 of which they wish to have. The several parts of the wood taken 

 and used for this purpose, are slips, layers, cuttings, and buds. 

 The different methods of propagation suited to each kind will be 

 mentioned under the name of the kinds respectively in the alpha- 

 betical list, which will form a part of this present chapter. In this 

 place, therefore, I am to describe the several methods generally, 

 and the general management suited to each. 



202. SLIPS are little branches of one or two years' growth, 

 pulled off from a limb or larger branch of the tree by a downward 

 jerk of the hand. You then take a sharp knife, trim off the ragged 



