SECT. W 



OF PRUNING. 



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four of the beft fttuated and ftrongeft, which may be 

 carefully twifted from the bottom upwards, or tied 

 together at the top, or if upright and Itrong, left to 

 frapoft themfelves fmgly. The bed fituated, or thofe 

 ftanding clofe together, ftear the centre of the ftool, 

 and ranging well ill the row, are thofe to be felected. 

 This done, let all ftraggling {hoots between the rows 

 be clean dug out. Shorten rafpberries, either juft below 

 I -the heud, or from three to four feet high, according to - 

 -their ftrength. 



Rafpberries muft not be fhortened in fummer ; and 

 the time for cutting them is from October all through 

 winter^ till they begin to (hoot at fpring, though the 

 former is the beft : efpecially if any thing is to be 

 planted between their rows. See page 38. 



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Berberry \ is a beautiful and fomewhat large 

 thrub, which mould be fuffered to grow with a full 

 head, like a dwarf ftandard tree. It bears along the 

 fides of both young and old wood, but chiefly towards 

 the ends, and its branches mould, therefore, not be 

 fhortened, except with a view to throw out wood. 

 Keep the root tree from fuckers, and the ftem from 

 fhoots in its lower part, and prune out weak, lux- 

 uriant, ftraggling, and crofting branches, forming it 

 to a fomewhat round head, which keep moderately 

 -open. Let the ft em be freed from lower branches to 

 the height of three, four or five feet, according as the 

 fhrub may be defired to approach to a tree. See 

 page 76. 



STRAWBERRIES require pruning off the runners 

 during furnmer, which ftrengthens the plants, keeps 

 the foil from being exhaufted, and gives all a neat air 

 of culture. This work fhould be particularly ioU 

 4owed up in edgings of ftrawberries, that they may 

 not run over the walks : If plants, however, ere 



