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Fully tranfplanted, each> into a fe- 

 parate fmall Pot filPd with light rich 

 Earth, and plac'd in a lhady Situa- 

 tion until they have taken new Root; 

 after which they may be placed in 

 a fheltered Situation, where they 

 may remain till October, when they 

 muft be remov'd into the Green- 

 houfe. 



The other Sorts are not fo eafily 

 propagated ; for I have not been 

 able to get one Plant from the Cut- 

 tings ; nor do the Branches which 

 are laid down take Root, fo that 

 they are propagated from Seeds only ; 

 and as it is very difficult to procure 

 their Seeds from the Country where 

 thefe Trees are Natives, fo th.-y are 

 very rare in Europe. 



PRUNING OF TREES: There 

 is not any Part of Gardening, which 

 is of more general Ufe than that of 

 Pruning ; and yet it is very rare to 

 fee Fruit-trees fkilfully manag'd : al- 

 moft every Gardener will pretend to 

 be a Mailer of this Bufmefs, though 

 there are but few who rightly un- 

 derstand it ; nor is it to be learn'd by 

 Rote, but requires a Uriel Gbferva- 

 tion of the different Manners of 

 Growth of thefeveral Sorts of Fruit- 

 trees ; fome requiring to be manag'd 

 one way, and others muft be treated 

 in a quite different Method, which 

 is only to be known from careful \y 

 obfervinghow each Kind is naturally 

 difpofed to produce its Fruit: for 

 fome Sorts produce their Fruit on 

 the fame Year's Wood, as Vines ; 

 others produce their Fruit, for the 

 moll part, upon the former Year's 

 Wood, as Peaches, Nectarines, cjfr . 

 and others upon Curfons or Spurs, 

 which are produe'd upon Wood of 

 three, four, or five, to fifteen or 

 twenty Years old, as Pears, Plums, 

 Cherries, &c. therefore, in erder to 

 the right Management of Fruit-trees, 

 there mould always be Provifion 



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made to have a fuiftcient Quantity 

 of bearing Wood in every Part of 

 the Trees ; and at the fame time there 

 mould not be a Superfluity of ufelefs 

 Branches, which would exhauil the 

 Strength of the Trees, and caufe 

 them to decay in a few Years. 



The Reafous which have been laid 

 down for Pruning of Fruit-trees, are 

 as follow : Firil, to preierve Trees 

 longer in a vigorous bearing State ; 

 the fecond is, to render the Trees 

 more beautiful to the E\e; and, 

 thirdly, to caufe the Fruit to be 

 larger, and better tailed. 



1. It preferves a Tree longer in 

 an healthy bearing State; far by 

 pruning off all fuperiluous Branches, 

 lo that there are no more left upon, 

 the Tree than are neceflary, or than 

 the Roots can nourifh prope^, the 

 Root is not exhaulled in Supplying 

 ufeiefs Branches, which mull after- 

 wards be cut out ; whereby much of 

 the Sap will be ufelefly expended. 



2. By fkilful Pruning of a Tree, it 

 is render'd much more pleafmg to 

 the Eye : but here I would not be 

 underllood fo be an Advocate for a 

 fort of Pruning, which I have fecn 

 too much praclis'd of late ; ^viz. 

 the drawing a regular Line againll 

 the Wall, according to the Shape or 

 Figure they would reduce the Tree 

 to, and cutting all the Branches, 

 flrong or weak, exactly to the chalked. 

 Line ; the Abfurdky of which. Pra- 

 ctice will foon appear to every one 

 who will be at the Pains of obferving 

 the Difference of thofe Branches 

 (hooting the fucceeding Spring. All 

 therefore that I mean by rendering 

 a Tree beautiful, is, that the Branches 

 are all prun'd according to their fe- 

 veral Strengths, and are nail'd at 

 equal Diitances, in proportion to the 

 different Sizes of their Leaves and 

 Fruit ; and that no Part of the Wall 

 (fc far as the Trees are advanced) be 



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