MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



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more abundant roots, grow fhorter jointed, are more pro- 

 lific, and will, if permitted, come into bearing the fecond 

 year." 



You fhould make choice of the cuttings after a warm dry 

 feafon, fuch as laft year (1800) ; but not after fuch as the 

 year before,, when the wood did not ripen properly, owing 

 to the wet and cold feafon. Each cutting mould have two 

 inches of the old wood, with one eye of the new. When you 

 prune your Vines you will have great choice ; you fhould 

 then felecl: your cuttings of a middling fize, the wood round 

 and perfectly ripened. Pots are to be filled with rich light 

 mould that has been well meliorated and prepared fome time 

 before. The cuttings are then to be prepared for plantings 

 as follows. The bottom part mould be cut perfectly finooth ; 

 and if any of the old dead mags remain,, they fhould be cut 

 offclofe to the quick wood, and the top cut doping towards 

 the back of the hot-houfe or frame when placed in them. I 

 would recommend planting only one cutting in each pot r 

 which as to fize fhould be a deep forty-eight ; by that means 

 the plants will grow muckftronger and quicker than when 

 many are crowded together, and the fun and air will have a 

 freer adinifFion to ripen the wood ; for, when many are planted 

 in one pot, they iliade one another, and in a considerable de- 

 gree prevent the fun and air from paffing freely among them. 

 When the plants begin to get ftrong, and, the pots full of 

 roots, it will be neceffary to iliift them from the forty-eights 

 to thirty-two's. 



The above mode is befl: adapted for private gardens ; but 

 for nurferymen, &c. who raife plants for fale, and cannot 

 conveniently fpare fo much room, it may be neceffary to 

 plant three or more cuttings in each pot. 



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