MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c, 21 



and canker, if it be left to Nature to perform the cure. I 

 would, therefore, recommend the application of the compo- 

 fition (in the fame manner as directed for other forts of fruit- 

 trees) to every fhoot where the knife touches, as foon as the 

 trees are cut and nailed. 



If you wifh your fruit to be large and fine, you muft take, 

 care to thin it where it is too thick ; but that muft not be done 

 too foon, left it ihould be pinched by the cold. The fruit 

 ought to be of the fize of a fmall marble, and well fheltered 

 by the leaves, before you attempt to do this. Never pull off 

 the leaves that ihelter the fruit, till it is full-grown and be- 

 gins to turn. This will be more fully treated of, when we 

 come to the management of Peaches and Nectarines. 



I have taken up feveral old trees from the walls, when they 

 have grown too near each other, and planted them out as 

 Standards, at the fame time fhortening their branches to 

 form handfome heads, which are now full of fine fruit. Thefe 

 trees would, by any other perfon, have been thrown to the 

 fagot-pile. 



