.38' TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



mon way were greatly injured, and often killed, when they 

 have had a great crop. 



In very dry feafons, it will be neceffary to make a large 

 bafm round each tree ; or, rather, make up an edge along the 

 whole border with mould, as you would for a bed to bed out 

 plants in a nurfery ; then give the trees a good watering, 

 and mulch the border (which fhould be from two feet and a 

 half to three feet broad) with fome very rotten dung or 

 leaves, which will keep the roots of the trees moid, and pre- 

 vent the ground from cracking. Water the trees once a 

 week during dry weather, and fprinkle the branches and 

 leaves every other day, in the afternoon, with the engine, 

 preffing your forefinger over the mouth of the pipe, in order 

 to fpread the water very fine. By thefe means you will keep 

 the trees clean and free from infects ; always remembering 

 not to fprinkle them when the fun is on them, nor too late in 

 the evening, as the former fcorches the leaves, and the latter 

 is apt to bring the mildew on the tender forts of Peaches. 

 If you find any of the trees infected, leave off fprinkling them, 

 or water them with clear lime-water, as hereafter directed ; 

 but this fhould always be done in warm weather. By fre- 

 quently fprinkling the trees with lime-water, and throwing it 

 plentifully on the underfide of the leaves, where the Acarus, 

 or red Spider, is moftly found, you will in a fhort time ex- 

 tirpate that deftructive infect. 



The next thing to be done is, to look over the trees, and 

 take all the late fide-fhoots, which would not ripen, off the 

 wood fit to bear the following year ; taking care, however, 

 to keep the fruit (haded ; and never fuffer the leaves to be 

 picked off till the fruit be grown to its full frze ; then begin to 

 take off fome of them, to let the fruit attain its natural colour. 



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