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/takes. Care muft be taken not to let the moots run to more 

 than fix inches Ions; ; becaufe fuch ihort (hoots will not be 

 ib liable to be damaged by the wind as long and weak ones- 

 are, efpecially when loaded with fruit. I prefer dwarfs from 

 three to four feet high. 



The fame manner of pruning, &c. will do for Black Cur- 

 rants ; but, as they grow flronger than the Red or White, the 

 fhoots {Mould be left thinner, and laid in longer, which will 

 make them produce larger and finer fruit. 



Thofe againft walls and palings ihould have the fhoots 

 laid in thinner than thofe in the quarters, and trained as hori* 

 zontally as pofTible, fhortening them in the Winter pruning 

 to a foot or eighteen inches, according to the ftrength of the 

 fhoots. 



As Currants are very liable to be devoured by earwigs 

 which take fhelter under their leaves and branches, bundles 

 of bean-ftalks fhould be hung up fome time before the bullies 

 t are covered with mats or nets. If proper attention be not 

 paid to this, the fruit will generally fuffer very much from 

 sthefe infects. After the bufhes are covered, take the mats 

 off once in three or four days, and kill the earwigs that have 

 got into the bean-Halks, which it will be neceffary (till to 

 keep hung up* As there is a fweetnefs in the infide of bean- 

 ftalks which attracts the earwigs, they very readily take 

 fhelter in them from rain. 



By paying proper attention to the foregoing directions, you 

 will be able to keep thefe deftru&ive infects under, and pre- 

 ferve the greater part of the fruit. 



Be particularly careful to flock up all fuckers at the roots 

 of the trees, and keep them as clean as pofHble ; otherwife 



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