MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c„ 



Of old and decayed Trees, 



It has been the general practice to train wall-trees in the 

 form of a fan, which occafions the fap to rife too freely to the. 

 top, leaving the lower part aim oft naked; fo that fcarcely. 

 ©ne quarter of the wall is covered with bearing wood. 



In that cafe, it will be neceffary to cut down the whole o£ : 

 the tree, as near to the place where it was budded as poffible 

 remembering always to cut at an eye or a joint. If there, 

 fhould be any young fhoots on the lower part of the tree, it 

 will be proper to leave them, training them horizontally,, 

 which will check the flow of the fap, and thereby render thems 

 much more fruitful- 

 Very frequently, when large branches have been cut off irf? 

 a carelefs manner, and the wounds left to nature, the whole: 

 tree is infected with the gum and canker; which, if not- 

 checked, will in a ihort time totally ruin it. 



The beft remedy in this cafe is, carefully to pare off the 

 cankered part of the bark with a draw knife, or other con- 

 venient inftrument. You will frequently find the white inner 

 bark infected, which muft alfo be cut away, till no appearance 

 of infection remains ; this may be eafily known by the brown 

 or black fpots, like dots made with a pen, of which not one- 

 mull be fuffered to remain. 



All the branches fo cut and pared fhould be immediately 

 covered with the compofition in a liquid ftate ; the prepara- 

 tion and application of which will be particularly defcribed in 

 another place. 



As we fometimes fee walls with all the trees infected, it will 

 in that cafe be molt prudent to cut every other tree, leaving 



the 



