ttiain until the following fpring, when they fhould 
be carefully taken up, la as not to break their ten- 
der roots, and tranfplanted into a nurfery in rows 
three feet afunder, and one foot diltant plant from 
plant in the rows, obferving to lay a little mulch up- 
on the furface of the ground about their roots, to pre- 
vent its drying too faft •, and if the fpring fhould 
prove very dry, you ’fhould give them a little water 
once a week, until they have taken root •, after which 
they fhould be conftantly kept clear from weeds, and 
the ground between the rows carefully dug every 
fpring to loofen it, fo as that the tender fibres may 
ftrike out on every fide. 
In this nurfery they may continue one or two years, 
according to the progrefs they make after which 
they fhould be tranfplanted where they are to remain, 
to produce fruit. 
In removing thefe trees, you fhould obferve to prune 
their downright roots, if they have any, pretty fhorr, 
and to cut off all bruifed parts of the roots, as alfo 
all the finall fibres, which generally dry, and when 
left upon the roots after planting again, grow mouldy 
and decay, fo that they are injurious to the new 
fibres which are fhot out from the roots, and very 
often prevent the growth of the trees ; but you 
fhould by no means prune their heads, for the plants 
which are produced from flones, are generally of a 
more fpongy texture, and fo more liable to decay when 
cut, than thofe which are budded upon other flocks. 
Befides, as thefe trees are defigned for ftandards (for 
it is not proper to plant them againll walls, until 
you fee the produce of the fruit, to fhew which of 
them deferves to be cultivated,) they will never re- 
quire any other pruning, but only to cut out decayed 
branches, or fuch as lhoot out very irregular from 
the fides, for more than this is generally very injuri- 
ous to them. 
In planting thefe trees, it will be the better way to 
difpofe them fingly in .the quarters of the kitchen- 
garden, where they will thrive, and produce fruit 
much better than if they are planted near each other 
in rows ; and, as they are thus fingly difpofed, they 
will not do much injury to the crops which grow 
under them. 
When they have produced fruit, you will foon be a 
judge of their goodnefs, therefore fuch of them as 
you diflike may be deftroyed ; but thofe which are 
good, may be propagated by inoculating them upon 
other flocks, which is the common method now 
pra&ifed to propagate thefe fruits, therefore I fhall 
now proceed to treat of that more particularly •, in 
the doing- of which, I fhall let down the method now 
commonly pradliled by the nurfery-gardeners, and 
then propofe fome few things of my own as an im- 
provement thereon, for fuch perfons who are very 
curious to have good fruit. But firfl, 
You fhould be provided with flocks of the Mufcle 
and white Pear Plums, which are generally efteemed 
the two belt forts of Plums for flocks to inoculate 
Peaches and Nedarines upon •, as alfo fome Almond 
and Apricot flocks, for fome tender forts of Peaches 
which will not grow upon Plum flocks. Thefe 
fhould be all produced from the flone (as hath been 
already directed in the article Nursery,) and not 
from fuckers, for the reafons there laid down. Thefe 
flocks fhould be tranfplanted, when they have had 
one year’s growth in the feed-bed, for the younger 
they are tranfplanted, the better they will iucceed, 
and hereby they will be prevented from fending tap- 
roots deep in the ground ^ for by 'fhortening thofe 
roots which feem fo difpofed, it will caufe them to 
put out horizontal roots. Thefe flocks fhould be 
planted at the diftance above-mentioned, viz. the 
rows three feet afunder, and one foot apart in the 
rows. This is wider than raoft nurferymen plant them, 
but I fhall give my reafons hereafter for this. 
When thefe flocks have grown in the nurfery two 
years, they will be ftrong enough to bud •, the feafon 
for which is commonly about Midfummer, or any 
time in July, when the rind will eafily feparate from 
the wood, when you fhould make choice of fome 
good cuttings of the forts of fruit you intend to pro- 
pagate, always obferving, to take them from healthy 
trees, and fuch as generally produce a good quantity 
of well-tailed fruit •, for it is very certain, that any 
fort of fruit may be fo far degenerated where this 
care is wanting, as not to be like the fame kind. Be- 
fides, whenever a tree is unhealthy, the buds taken 
from that tree will always retain the diftemper, in a 
greater or lefs degree, according as it hath imbibed a 
greater or lefs quantity of the diflempered juice. 
Thus, for inflance, where a Peach or Nedarine-tree 
hath been greatly blighted, fo as that the fhoots have 
grown bulled, and the leaves curled up to a great 
degree, that diftemper is feldom recovered again by 
the greateft art, or at leaft not under feveral years 
management •, for let the feafons prove ever fo favour- 
able, yet thefe trees will continually fhew the fame 
diftemper, which many perfons are fo weak as to fup- 
pofe a frefh blight, whereas in reality it is no other 
but the remains of the former ficknefs, which are 
fpread and intermixed with all the juices of the tree 5 
fo that whatever buds are taken from fuch trees, will 
always retain a part of the diftemper. 
Upon the care which is taken in the choice of the 
buds, the whole fuccefs depends •, therefore a perfon 
who is curious to have good fruit, cannot be too care- 
ful in this particular j for in general no more is re- 
garded by thofe nurferymen who are the moft careful 
in propagating the feveral forts of fruit-trees, than 
the taking their buds or grafts from the true kinds 
of fruit-trees ; but there is ftill more care required 
to have found healthy trees, efpecially in this of 
Peaches and Nedtarines ; for if the buds are taken from 
young plants in the nurfery which have not pro- 
duced fruit, the fhoots of which are generally very 
ftrong and vigorous, thefe buds will have fo vicious 
a habit, as rarely to be corrected and brought into 
good order •, for they will lhoot more like the Willow 
than the Peach, the joints being extended to a great 
diftance from each other, the lhoots very grofs, and 
the wood pithy therefore where the pra&ice of tak- 
ing the buds from nurfery-trees is long continued, 
there can be little hopes of the trees fo raffed. I 
would therefore recommend it to every curious per- 
fon, to procure their buds from fuch trees as have 
been long growing, whofc fruit are well flavoured, 
and the trees perfe&ly found •, as alfo never to make 
choice of the flrongeft or moft luxuriant fhoots of 
thefe trees, but fuch fhoots as are well conditioned, 
and whofe buds grow pretty clofe together. And 
although thefe do not make fo ftrong fhoots the fol- 
lowing years, as thofe which are taken from luxuri- 
ant branches, yet they will be better difpofed to bear 
fruit, and will make much better trees. 
The cuttings with which you are thus to be provided, 
fhould always be taken from the trees either in a 
morning or evening, or elfe in a cloudy day ; for if 
they are cut off when the fun is very hot, the flioots 
will perfpire fo freely, as to leave the buds deftitute of 
moillure, which is often the caufe of their mifearry- 
ing and the fooner they are put into the flocks when 
cut from the trees, the better they will take. The 
manner of this operation being fully explained under 
the article of Inoculation, I fhall not repeat it in 
this place. The management of thefe trees, during 
their remaining time in the nurfery, is likewife fully 
fet down under that article. I fhall therefore pro- 
ceed to give fome directions for the choice of thefe 
trees, when they are to be procured from a nurfery. 
The firft care fhould be to find out a perfon of cha- 
racter to deal with, on whole integrity you may de- 
pend, not only for having the trees of thofe kinds 
which you propofe, but alfo for their buds being 
taken from bearing trees ; and either fee them taken 
up, or let fome perfon you can confide in do it for 
you ; becaufe, as moft of the nurferymen have deal- 
ings with each other, if the perfon applied to has not 
the fort of fruit defired in his own nurfery, he pro- 
cures them from another j and if the gardener from 
whom 
