MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, kc, 23 i 



every two rows, floping the ground regularly on each fide, 

 from a reafonable diftance to the bottom of the furrow. 

 Theie hollows will carry off the water, and render the furface 

 dry and healthy. If pafture, the turf may be firft pared off, 

 and afterwards re-laid when the furrow is made. 



In orchards, where cattle are not permitted to go, I would 

 prefer dwarf-trees to ftandards, taking care to proportion the 

 diftance of the rows to the fize of the trees. But in orchards 

 kept for pafture it will be neceffary to plant ftandards. 



Burning of rotten wood, weeds, potatoe haulm, wet 

 ftraw, &c. on the windward fide of the trees when they are in 

 bloffom, will be found a good prefervative from blights, 

 caterpillars, &c. 



I would recommend wafhing the trees annually, in the 

 month of February or March, with the following mixture, 

 which will deftroy the eggs of infects, and prevent mofs from 

 growing on the trunks and branches : it will alfo help to 

 nourim the tree, keeping the bark fine and healthy ; and will 

 have the fame effect on it as a top dreffmg has upon grafs 

 land. « 



Mix frefh cow-dung with urine and foap-fuds, and with 

 this mixture warn over the ftems and branches of the trees, as 

 a whitewather would warn the cieling or walls of a room ; 

 taking care to cut off all the cankery parts, and to fcrape off 

 all the mofs, before you lay the mixture on. In the courfe of 

 the Spring or Summer, you will fee a fine new bark coming 

 on. When the old bark is cankery, you muff pare it off with 

 a draw-knife, or fuch a long knife as I have had made on 

 purpofe, efpecially for wall-trees, where the draw-knife can- 

 not be applied, next the wall. The knives and other tools 



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