MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



A Selection of Apricots for a fmall Garden. 



The Mafculine; the Roman; the Orange; the Breda; 

 and the Moor Park* 



Of the Planting, Pruning, and Training of Apricots. 



The beft time for planting Apricots is in Autumn, as fooa 

 as the leaf begins to fall. The perfon who goes to the nur- 

 fery for the plants ftiould make choice of thofe which have 

 the frrongeft and cleaneft ftems ; and if he can procure fuch 

 as have been headed down, (to ufe the phrafe of the nurfery- 

 men) of two or three years growth, they will bear and fill 

 the walls much fooner than thofe which have not been fo 

 treated. He fhould make choice of trees with one ft em ; or, 

 if they have two, one of them fhould be cut off; for by 

 planting thofe "with two ftems the middle of the tree is left 

 naked, and, of courfe, one third of the wall remains un- 

 covered. 



I know that it is the practice of many to make choice of 

 trees with the fmalleft ftems ; but thefe always produce weaken 

 (hoots than the others., 



On preparing the Borders. 



If the borders wherein the trees are to be planted be new, 

 they fhould be made two feet and a half or three feet deep, of 

 good light frefh loam. If the trees are to be planted in old 

 borders, where the earth has been injured by the roots of the 



former 



