MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. m 



the mice from eating the Nuts or carrying them off in 

 Winter. 



When at the Botanic Gardens, Chelfea, I once fowed 

 feveral quarts of large Barcelona Nuts, in pots, in two 

 frames at a confiderable diftance from each other, the Nuts 

 were all carried off by the mice in one night. On fearching 

 round the lining of a frame where we kept green-houfe plants 

 in Winter, I found above a quart of the Nuts in one hoard, 

 which I again fowed immediately, covering them over with 

 flates ; from thefe Nuts I raifed fome very fine plants. 



The Barcelona Nut-tree is rather fcarce in England, but 

 it is well worth cultivating ; it is a diftincl: fpecies, and grows 

 to a fine timber tree. The Nuts that I fowed, as mentioned 

 above, were produced from a fine tree in the Botanic Gardens 

 at Chelfea *. 



Thole who are not in poffeffion of plants may procure 

 them from Nuts frefh imported from Spain, by fowing 

 them as before directed. Great quantities are imported 

 annually under the name of Barcelona, or great SpaniOi 

 Nuts. 



When in the Nurfery, Nut-trees fhould be trained with 

 fingle ftraight Items, to form fine heads from three to fix 

 feet high ; cut off the leading-moot at the height you would 

 have the head formed, rubbing off all the lower buds, and 

 leaving only as many at top as you think will be fufficient 

 to form a handfome head, and according to the ftrength of 

 the Item. 



* This tree, at two feet and a half from the ground, meafures about four feet in cir- 

 cumference. 



Nuts, 



