MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, kc. $9 



This may be done once a week, in a gradual manner ; by 

 which method the fruit will continue much longer in fuc- 

 ceffion, than if the leaves were picked off all at once ; in the 

 latter cafe, the fruit all ripens at the fame time; but, by 

 thinning at different times, there will be a regular iucceffion 

 for the table. 



It is a bad practice to pick off the leaves of Peaches before 

 the fruit is grown to its natural fize. The fhade of the leaves 

 nourifhes the fruit very much ; and, if you obferve, wherever 

 the leaves are picked off the fruit will be fin all, ftunted, and 

 ill-flavoured. Remember to hang up the bean-ftalk (as here- 

 after defcribed) before the fruit begins to ripen, in order to 

 get rid of the earwigs, &c. otherwife they will greatly injure 

 the Peaches. — [See the Chapter on Insects.] 



I would recommend planting fome trees of the early 

 Peaches againft Eaft or North walls ; for, by fo doing, you 

 will have a regular Iucceffion of fine Peaches till the late forts, 

 againft the South and Weft walls, come in ; but never plant 

 late forts on a North or Eaft wall. You may plant Peaches 

 between Pears and Plums till they meet each other; then 

 tranfplant them againft other walls, or where dead trees have 

 been taken up.. 



The following are the Sorts that I would recommend to be planted 

 againft North and Eaft Walls, viz.. 



Early Avant ; Early Ann; Early Mignonne ; Royal George ; 

 Red Magdalen ; Royal Kenfmgton; NoblefTe ; Grofs Mig- 

 nonne, and Millet's Mignonne, 



