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Wall or Efpalier ; which will not 

 only render them beautiful, but alfo 

 give to each an equal Advantage of 

 Sun and Air : and hereby the Fruit 

 will be always kept in a ductile, 

 growing State ; which they feldom 

 are, when overfhaded with Shoots 

 fome Part of the Seafon, and then 

 fuddenly expofed to the Air, by the 

 taking orT or training thofe Branches 

 in their proper Pofition. 



With thus carefully going over 

 thefe Trees in the growing Seafon, 

 there will be but little Occafion for 

 cutting them in Winter; which (as I 

 before have faid) is of ill Confe- 

 quence to all Sorts of Stone-fruit ; 

 for when the Branches are fhorten'd, 

 the Fruit is cut away, and the Num- 

 ber of Shoots increas'd : fo where- 

 ever a Branch is Ihorten'd, there are 

 commonly two or more Shoots pro- 

 duct from the Eyes immediately be- 

 low the Cut ; and by thus unfkilfully 

 Pruning, many Perfons croud their 

 Trees wilh Branches, and thereby 

 render what little Fruit the Trees 

 produce, very fmall and ill-tafted ; 

 which is very commonly found in 

 too many Gardens, where the Ma- 

 nager, perhaps, thinks himfelf a 

 complete Mailer of his Bufmefs. For 

 nothing is more common, than to 

 fee every Branch of a Fruit- tree pafs 

 the Difcipline of the Knife, however 

 agreeable it be to the feveral Sorts 

 of Fruits. And it is common to fee 

 thefe Trees planted at the Diftance 

 cf fourteen or fixteen Feet, fo that 

 the Walls are in a few Years coverd 

 with Branches; and then all the 

 Shoots are cut and mangled with the 

 Knife, fo as to appear like a Hump- 

 ed Hedge, and produce little Fruit: 

 therefore the only way to have 

 Plum-trees in good Order, is to give 

 them room, and extend theirBranches 

 fit full Length. 



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Thofe few Rules, before laid 

 down, will be fumcient, if due Ob- 

 fervation be join'd therewith, to in- 

 ftrudt any Perfon in the right Ma- 

 nagement of thefe Sort of Fruit-trees ; 

 therefore I fhall not fay any more on 

 that Subject, left, by multiplying 

 Inftructions, it may render it more 

 obfcure to a Learner. 



PSEUDOACACIA. Vide Robi- 

 nia. 



PSYLLIUM, Fleawort. 

 The Characters are ; 



This Plant agrees ivitb Plantaix 

 and Buck/born - plantain in every re- 

 fp>. Si, excepting that this rifes up <uitb 

 lofty Stalks, and divides into many 

 Branches ; nvhereas both the others 

 produce their Flctwcrs upon naked Pe- 

 dicles. 



The Species are ; 



1. Psyllium tnajus ere Slum. C. 

 B. P. Greater upright Fleawort. 



2. Psyllium majus fupinum. C. 

 B. P. Greater Fleawort, whofe 

 Branches fpread to the Ground. 



3. Psyllium Indie um y foliis cre- 

 natis. J. B. Indian Fleawort, with 

 notched Leaves. 



There are feveral other Varieties 

 of thefe Plants, diftinguilh'd by Wri- 

 ters in Botany : but fince they are 

 of little Ufe or Beauty, I fliall pafs 

 them by without naming. 



Thefe Plants may be propagated 

 by lowing their Seeds in the Spring, 

 on a Bed of light Earth ; and when 

 they are come up, they mould be 

 clear'd from Weeds ; pulling out at 

 the fame time fome of the Plants, 

 where they (land too clofe, leaving 

 the remaining ones about eight or 

 nine Inches afunder : after which 

 they will require no farther Care, 

 but to clear them from Weeds ; and 

 in July they will flower, and their 

 Seeds will ripen in Autumn. 



The fecond Sort will abide two or 

 three 



