28 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



The same rules must be observed with regard to pruning 

 and cutting out diseased parts ; and the same attention will be 

 necessary during the summer; observing, in particular, not 

 to leave the wood too thick. 



On account of the smoothness of the skin of the nectar- 

 ine, it suffers much more from millepedes (or wood-lice), ear- 

 wigs, &c. than the peach ; it will, therefore, be necessary to 

 hang up a greater number of bundles of bean-stalks about these 

 than about other fruit-trees. Wasps are also very destructive 

 to nectarines, and the trees are very liable to be infested with 

 the red spider ; these are to be destroyed as hereafter directed. 

 [See the Chapter on Insects'], 



Do not omit to thin the fruit when grown to a tolerable 

 size ; but never pick oif the leaves till the fruit be full-grown ; 

 observing the rules already laid down for peaches. It will an- 

 swer equally well with nectarines as with peaches, to plant some 

 trees in an East aspect, which will continue the succession much 

 longer than if all were planted in the usual aspects. 



In the summer of 1800, which was dry and hot, we had a 

 West aspect which was so much infested with the red spider 

 that I expected the trees would have been totally destroyed. 

 In February following, I had the wall well washed with soap 

 and urine mixed, as also the stems and branches of the trees. 

 (This must be done before the buds begin to open, and in the 

 forepart of the day, that the trees may get dry before the even- 

 ing; but never in frostj^ weather). Afterwards, wherever I 

 saw any appearance of the spider, I watered the trees with 

 clear lime water, as directed in chapters 3 and 28. These 

 trees are now in a perfectly healthy state ; but in some gardens 

 where these precautions have been neglected, many of the trees 

 are entirely killed. 



