OF PRUNING. 



SECT. Xil. 



-wanted for new beds, they muft be fuffered to run. 

 See pages 39, 78. 



The drejfmg of ftrawberries confifts not only of 

 pruning from runners ; but cutting down the great 

 leaves in autumn (early) with a fey the ; or, which is 

 better, by taking them up in the hand, and ufmg a 

 fcnife. At this time they muft be weeded, and the 

 ground ftirred between them, deep enough to cut the 

 ends of the roots a little. Then there mould be fpread 

 over the beds a little rotten dung, or good frefh earth, 

 and all afterwards kept free from the weeds. Let the 

 furface of the ground be ftirred again in fpring, and 

 any hollows that may be between the plants filled 

 up with earth, and a little dung amongft it, if none was 

 applied in autumn. Thus with good management the 

 delicious ftrawberry will be had in abundance and per- 

 fection, the feafon not being unpropitious. 



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Flowering Shrubs are of great variety, and the 

 method of pruning them is to be determined ac- 

 cording to the feveral modes of hearing, of which 

 confider chiefly thefe ; that is, whether they produce 

 their flowers upon th« lajl year's fhoots, or the pre- 

 Jent ; on the ends, or the Jides of their branches. If 

 a fhrub bears on the lajl year's fhoots, it is evident 

 that it muft be cut away no more than is neceftary to 

 keep it within bounds, open, and handfome as to its 

 form ; in this cafe, it is the bufmefs to cut clean out, 

 ox very low, what is to be fpared. If a fhrub hears 

 on the prefent year's (hoots, the old wood may, and 

 muft be cut down freely, fo however as to leave eyes 

 enough for new fhoots to proceed from, to make a 

 fufficient head and mow. If the fhrub bears altoge- 

 ther, or chiefly at its ends, no fhortening muft take 

 place ; but if fome of the branches are too long, they 

 may be either cut out, or quite low, leaving the 

 ihorter ones to bear. If the fhrub bears along its fides, 



