MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



Of the Management of Nectarifics, 



It is unneceflary to fay much on this head, as the manage- 

 ment of Nectarines is almoft the fame as that of Peaches. 



The fame rules muft be obferved with regard to pruning 

 and cutting-out difeafed parts ; and the fame attention will 

 be necefTary during the fummer ; obferving, in particular, 

 not to lay-in the wood too thick. 



On account of the fmoothnefs of the fkin of the Nectarine, 

 it fuffers much more from millepedes (or wood-lice), ear- 

 wigs, &c. than the Peach ; it will, therefore, be neceffary to 

 hang up a greater number of bundles of bean-fhalks about 

 thefe than about other Fruit-trees. Wafps are alfo very 

 deftructive to Nectarines, and the trees are very liable to be 

 infefted with the red fpider ; thefe are to be deftroyed as 

 hereafter directed. 



Let the wall, with the Items and branches of the trees, 

 be carefully infpected, and all the fnails about them picked 

 off and deftroyed. The young fnails frequently commit 

 great depredations on the leaves before the fruit is ripe. — [See 

 the Chapter on Insects.] 



It may, perhaps, be necefTary to obferve here, that after the 

 fall of the leaf the young moots mould be unnailed, in order 

 to harden the wood ; and in hot weather form bafms on the 

 borders, and mulch them, as directed for Peaches. 



The fame mode of watering with the engine is alfo to be 

 obferved, in dry hot weather. 



Do not omit to thin the fruit when grown to a tolerable 

 fize ; but never pick off" the leaves till the fruit be full-grown ; 



G 2 obferving 



