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longer, efpecrally in a northern afpect of the garden, 

 or fome ihady place ; and if to this- fituation and 

 fullnefs, be added matting or netting, they may be pre- 

 ferved till November. 



• The time of pruning thefe trees, is commonly held- 

 to be indifferent, and any time between leaf and leaf 

 may be adopted to cut them as opportunity offers. 

 But when they are getting /W? leaf is 'perhaps) the* 

 ■beft time ; as when pruned early, there is frequently a 

 lofs of almoft the whole fruit, by birds eating the buds*. 

 Leaving the whole head on till fpring, is a fee ur.it y. as- 

 to a crop of fruit, as the cafe would be bad indeed, i£ 

 fome good branches are not left, properly furnimed, 

 with uninjured buds ; but ftill it is allowed, that an-, 

 early pruning if rengthensthe tree, and tends to encreafe- 

 the fizeof the. fruit* 



Currant trees need not to be kept lb open as goofe^ 

 berry, the branches of which mould be (for fine fruit), 

 five or fix inches afunder, and as little ihortened as 

 poffible. Thofe forts of goofeberrks whofe . {hoots, 

 grow in a curved manner, may have their long 

 branches, when in fruit, fupported with little forked, 

 flicks* Keep thefe trees clear oi fuckers, and all fhoots. 

 from the item,, that are within nine or ten inches o£ 

 the grouncL 



for planting ftandardsin orchards y&c See fection ^ 



4.. Of PRUNING SHRUBS » 



Many flrrubs are cultivated for their ornament, and" 

 fome for their fruit ; of the latter kind are rafbberrist 

 and barberries. 



Raspberries bear fruit on little fide fhoots of the 

 prefent year, proceeding from items oi the faft, and 

 fometimes produce a little on thofe of the fame year.. 

 To prune or drefs the fhrub, therefore, firft cut out 

 all the old bearers, whofe wood dies, then cut out,, 

 clofe to the fiooh all the new (hoots, except three or 



four 



