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THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



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are left should now be fastened to the walls, pales, or espa- 

 liers, rcgulaidy, each shoot at its full length without shortening. 



APRICOT AND PEACH-TREES, &i 



If the apricot, peach, and nectarine-trees were not looked oveY 

 .ast month, in the young shoots of the year, to give the requi- 

 site regulation of summer pruning and training, it must now 

 be done. 



This work should be commenced in the beginning of the 

 month, and followed with the utmost diligence till the whole 

 be completed ; for were these trees suffered to remain long in 

 the wild confused manner, that they naturally grow into at 

 this season, it would not only prove detrimental, in a great 

 degree, to the trees, but would also very much retard the 

 growth and ripening of their fi'uit. 



Therefore let these trees be gone over, taking care to clear 

 away all ill-grown and ill-placed shoots ; for this will not only 

 strengthen, but make more room to train the useful shoots in 

 a proi)er manner to the wall. 



In doing this, select a plentiful supply of all the best gro^\ 

 ing well-placed shoots, to retain in all parts where they can 

 be trained in regularly ; prune out all the irregular placed fore- 

 right slioots, and others not eligibly situated for regular train- 

 ing, as well as all rank luxuriants of remarkably vigorous 

 growth : cut out, also, any ill-formed, thick, spongy, and 

 other improper and apparently useless wood, and where the 

 general shoots are over-abundant, cut away the worst of the 

 iuperfluous, in a regular manner, so as to leave plenty of the 

 best in all parts of the tree ; and let all the others, as above, 

 be pruned quite close to the places whence they originate. 



At this season, it will be proper to observe, that wliere there 

 are any vacant spaces, it is now a most eligible time to begin 

 to fnrnish the requisite supply of wood in such parts, the same 

 year, by pinching or pruning short some contiguous young 

 shoots. 



For example, if two, three, or more branches may be wanted 

 to fill the vacancy, and suppose there be only a young shoot 

 produced in or near that place, it will, in such case, be proper, 



