TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



Remember to cut off all the ends of the fmall llioots where 

 the canker had injured them laft year. Cut off alfo the old 

 fruit-ftalks, and all the fmall dead flubs, which, if left, will 

 never fail to bring on the canker. 



The rough or cankery bark on that fide of trees which is 

 next the wall fhould be fcraped or pared off with a tool made 

 in the form of a fickle, which, with other tools, will be de- 

 fcribed hereafter. 



It is much to be regretted, that fruit-trees in general 

 throughout this kingdom are in a mutilated unfruitful ftate. 

 After Gentlemen have purchafed the young trees from Nur- 

 feries, and planted them in their orchards and gardens, they 

 think every thing neceflary is done ; when, in fa 61, the 

 greater part of the work is yet to come. In packing and 

 carriage, the Items and branches are very frequently bruifed ; 

 in that cafe, the injured parts of the bark and wood muft be 

 carefully cut out, and the Compofition immediately applied : 

 this may be done when you head the trees, which operation 

 fhould be performed in April, May, or even June, when the 

 bud begins to fhoot ; but by no means cut off any of the 

 fhoots, except thole that are broken or bruifed very much. 

 When this is neglected, the canker will follow, to the great 

 injury, if not the death, of the trees. How common is it to 

 fee, in all parts of the country, great numbers of trees fo 

 affected with this difeafe as not to produce fruit enough in 

 twelve or fourteen years to pay half the expence attending 

 them ! whereas, if they were to be managed according to the 

 foregoing directions, they would more than pay all the ex- 

 pence in three years. It is common, when young trees do 

 not thrive, either to blame the nurferyman for fending bad or 

 'difeafed trees, or to attribute their unthriving ftate to the 



nature 



