them ; and thofe which are planted in pots fhould be 
allowed room for their roots to expand, and muft be 
frequently watered, Qtherwlb they will not grow very 
large. 
The inhabitants of the Weft-Indies draw an oil from 
the feeds of thefe plants, which ferves for the ufe of 
their lamps ; and as the plants come up as weeds in 
thofe warm countries, fo they are at no trouble to 
cultivate the plants, but employ their negroes to col- 
left the feeds from the plants which grow naturally, 
whereby they are furnilhed with the oil at a fmall ex- 
pence. This’ oil is good to kill lice in children’s heads ; 
and of late years it has been a molt effeftual remedy 
for the dry belly-ach, which was a fatal diftemper in 
the Weft-Indies ; it has alfo been found ferviceable 
in England, in fuch diforders where no other medi- 
cine will pafs through the body. Thi? oil is falfly 
called Caftor Oil in the Weft-Indies, from the corrupt 
title of Agnus Callus there given to the plant. 
The feeds of the firft fort is the Cataputia major of 
the (hops ; thefe have been formerly given by fome 
perfons to purge watery humours, which they do both 
upward and downward with great violence, fo that at 
prelent thefe feeds are rarely ufed. 
RIPENING of FRUIT. 
The Method of producing Early Fruits. 
In order to have early fruit, a wall ihould be erefled 
ten feet high, and in length according to the number 
of trees intended for three years forcing ; the method 
of conftrudting thefe walls is fully explained under 
the article Wall. 
This being done, a border may be marked out about 
four feet wide on the fouth lide of it, and fome fcant- 
lings of wood, about four inches thick, muft be faft- 
ened to the ground in a ftrait line, on the outfide of 
the border, to reft the glafs lights upon ; which lights 
are to (lope backward to the wall, to fhelter the fruit 
as there fhall be occafion. 
Bars about four inches wide, cut out of the whole 
deal, muft be placed between thefe glaffes, fo that the 
lights may reft on them. There muft alfo be a door 
fnaped to the profile of the frame at each end, that it 
may be opened at either of the ends, according as the 
wind blows. 
The frame before-mentioned Ihould be madefo, that 
when the firft part has been forced, the whole frame 
may be moved the next year forward, and the fuc- 
ceeding year forward again, fo that the trees will be 
forced every third year ; and having two years to re- 
cover themfelves, will continue in vigour many years. 
Thefe trees fhould be well grown before they are 
forced, otherwife they will loon be deftroyed ; and the 
fruit produced on grown trees will be much fairer and 
better tailed, than on frefh planted trees. 
The fruit that may be planted in thefe frames are ; 
The Avant, the Albemarle, the Early Newington, 
and Brown Nutmeg Peaches. 
Mr. Fairchild’s Early, the Elruge and Newington 
Nectarines ; the Mafculine Apricot ; the May Duke 
and May Cherry. 
As for Grapes, the Chaffelas and Black Clufter. 
Goofeberries *, the Dutch White, the Dutch Early 
Green, and the Walnut Goofeberries. 
Currants ; the large Dutch White, the large Dutch 
Red Currants. 
It has been found by experience, that the trees will be 
injured, if the heat be applied before the middle or 
end of January ; and that the time for applying the 
heat for bringing either Duke or May Cherries, is 
about the middle of that month, and applying heat 
at the fame time would do for Apricots ; fo that the 
Mafculine Apricot will, by the beginning of March, 
be as large as Duke Cherries, and will be ripe by 
the beginning of May. 
Cherries thus forced will not hold fo well as Apri- 
cots, though the former will laft, perhaps, for leven 
years in good plight, but Apricots will thrive and 
prolper thus many years. 
Fairchild’s Early Nectarine commonly ripens about 
the end of May, if they are forced at the fametlme.j 
and the Brugnon Nectarine will follow that. As to' 
the forward forts of Plums, they ripen about the lat- 
ter end of May. 
Goofeberries will produce green fruit fit for tarts In 
March, and probably will ripen about the beginning 
or middle of April at the fartheft. 
Currants might, by the lame heat that brings Cher- 
ries in April, be forced to produce ripe fruit at the 
fame time, if not fooner. 
As for the diftance of thefe trees one from another, 
it need not be fo great as is dire&ed for thofe planted 
in the open air, becaufe they will never fhoot fo vi- 
goroufly nor laft fo long, therefore eight or nine feel 
will be fufficient. 
The higher parts of the wall being furnifhed with 
Apricots, Cherries, Nectarines* Peaches, and PlumS,- 
the lower fmall fpace between them may be filled up 
with Currants, Goofeberries, and Rofes. 
The trees againft that part of the wall which is 
defigned for forcing, Ihould be pruned as foon as 
their leaves begin to decay, that the buds on the 
branches which are left may be benefited, by receiv- 
ing all the nourilhment of the branches, whereby they 
will become turgid andftrong, by the time the walls 
are heated. 
As to the nailing of thefe trees. 
Every branch or fhoot muft be laid as clofe to the 
wall as can be ; for the fruit which is near the wall 
will be ripe a month fooner than thofe that lie but 
four inches from it. 
Sometimes it happens, that the tops of fuch trees 
have bloffoms above a month or fix weeks before the 
bottom * and fometimes one branch has been full of 
bloffoms, when there have been half a fcore or more 
branches of the fame tree, which have not ftirred till 
the fruit of the firft bloffoms has been almoft grown, 
notwithftanding which the tree has done very well ; 
and it is no uncommon thing for fuch trees to have 
fruit ripening upon them for near three months con- 
tinually. 
As for Goofeberries, thofe plants which are planted in 
thefe frames, Ihould be fuch as have been fpread and 
trained, when as many Ihoots have been nailed to the 
wall as may conveniently be done, others may be left 
at a diftance from it, to fucceed them in ripening. 
If they are taken up in autumn, and properly ma- 
naged, they will bear fruit the firft year as well as if 
they had not been tranfplanted, but thefe feldom laft 
longer than, two or three years. 
The Currants may be ordered after the fame manner, 
and alfo the Rofes * and the beft kind of Rofe for this 
purpofe, is the monthly Rofe, which ought always to 
be topped about the end of July or the beginning of 
Auguft, to make them put out a good number of 
flower-buds. 
As to the laying dung to the wall : 
This, before it be laid to the back of the wall, fhould 
be thrown up in a heap, and lie eight days, then 
turned over, that it may be of an equal heat every- 
where, and conftant. 
When it has been thus prepared, it fhould be laid 
about four feet thick at the bafe, and fo Hoping, till 
it is but two feet wide at the top. 
It fhould be laid at firft within four inches of the top 
of the wall, for it will fink two feet in fix weeks 
time •, and then fome frefh dung muft be laid, be- 
caufe the firft heat will not do much more than fwell 
the buds of the trees, or bring them to flower. 
But, according as the frofts fhall have happened to 
have had more or lefs influence over the buds, this 
will happen fooner or later. 
if thefe trees be covered with the glaffes a month be- 
fore the dung is laid againft the wall, it will contri- 
bute very much to forward their bloffoming ; for 
though their bloffoms will not be deftroyed by the 
frofts, yet the more the frofts come at them, they" 
will be the drier and more hard to open. 
If the weather is tolerably mild, the trees ought not 
to be hindered from the benefit of the Flowers till 
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