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Cherries. 
The Early May, and May Duke, 
Plums. 
The Mirabelle. 
The Early Black Damaik, or Morocco. 
The Great Damaik Violet of Tours. 
The Drap d’Or. 
Peaches. 
The Red Nutmeg. 
The Red Magdelain. 
The Montauban. 
Early Newington. 
Violet Hative. 
Nectarines. 
Fairchild’s Early Nutmeg. 
The Elruge. 
Apricot, 
The Mafculine. 
Thefe being the forts which ripen early, are the 
molt proper to plant againft thefe Walls, although 
they are not fo valuable as fome other forts of thefe 
fruits : yet, as they naturally ripen three weeks or a 
month earlier in the feafon, they will be very early 
ripe, when they are brought forward by artificial 
warmth. 
In the preparing of the borders for planting thefe 
fruit-trees, there fhould be the fame care taken as 
for thofe againft open borders, which, being fully treat- 
ed of in another part of this work, I ftiall not repeat 
here. There muft alfo be the fame care in training up 
the trees when they fhoot ; but the trelilfes need not 
be made againft thefe Walls till the trees are grown 
large enough to fpread, and produce a quantity of 
fruit •, till which time they may be fupported by any 
low ordinary trellis, which will do very well till the 
time that the trees will have ftrength enough to force, 
which will not be until the fourth or fifth year after 
planting, according to the progrefs they have made ; 
for if they are forced too young, it will weaken them 
fo much, as that they feldom make vigorous trees af- 
terward ; befides the quantity of fruit which fuch 
young trees produce, is not worth the expence and 
trouble of forcing ; for the quantity of fuel ufed, and 
the trouble will be the fame for fmall trees, which 
are not capable of producing more than fix or eight 
fruit each, as for thofe trees which may produce 
three or four dozen *, fo that the greater time the trees 
have to grow before they are forced, the better they 
will pay for the trouble and expence. 
But it will be the beft way not to have any of the 
frames made, nor the trellis, or any other of the 
wood-work, until the trees are ftrong enough to force ; 
for if thefe are done when the Walls are firft built, as 
is by fome perfons praAifed, they will be half de- 
cayed before there is any ufe for them ; but then the 
perfons who are employed in making the trellis, muft 
be very careful in putting it up, not to injure the 
trees. 
When the trees have acquired ftrength enough to 
produce a quantity of fruit, the part which is defigned 
to be forced the following fpring, Ihould be carefully 
pruned early in autumn, when the very weak Ihoots 
muft be either entirely cut out, or pruned very Ihort, 
becaufe thefe, by being forced, will for the moft part 
decay, and though fome of them may be full of - 
flower-buds, yet thefe Ihoots being weak cannot 
nourifh them •, fo that the flowers having exhaufted all 
the fap, the Ihoots will die foon after, and rarely pro- 
duce any fruit, or at leaft do not bring them to per- 
fe Aion. The other more vigorous Ihoots Ihould alfo 
be Ihortened to a proper length, after the fame man- 
ner as is direAed for thofe trees in the open air, with 
this difference only, viz. that thefe which are defigned 
for forcing, Ihould not have their Ihoots left fo lony 
becaufe the forcing of them will weaken them ; and 
confequently, fhould there be as great a length of 
branches, there will probably be a greater number of 
fruit on them •, becaufe, as thefe will be fcreened from 
the open air, they will not be liable to blafts, or the 
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injuries of the froft •, and the having too many fruit 
on the trees will render them fmall, and alfo too 
much weaken the trees ; then the Ihoots fhould be all 
regularly fattened to the trellis, at a proper diftance 
from each other, fo that when the branches fhoot the 
following fpring, they may not over-hang each other. 
The realon for my advifing thefe trees to be pruned 
- fo early in the feafon, is, that thofe branches which 
are left on, may enjoy the whole nourifhment of the 
fap, fo that the buds will become very turgid durino 1 
the winter feafon, and will be prepared to open when 
the fires are fet to work. 
The time for beginning to make the fires is about the 
middle or latter end ofjanuary, according as the fea- 
fon is more or lefs favourable ; for if the trees are 
forced too early into flower, they will be in fome dan- 
ner of mifcarrying, if the weather Ihould prove fe- 
vere ; fo that it is by much the fureft method to be- 
gin about the time here direAed, becaufe there will be 
a neceffity of admitting frefh air to the trees when 
tney are in flower, which cannot be done fafely when 
they flower in very bad weather. And thofe trees 
which are forced into flower by the middle of Febru- 
ary, will ripen their fruit as early as moft people will 
defire to eat them ; for the Cherries will ripen early 
in April, and the Apricots by the beginning of May, 
and foon after the Plums, Peaches, and NeAarines, 
will be ripe. 
There are fome perfons who plant Strawberries in 
their borders before the fruit-trees, in order to have 
early fruit, which often fucceed very well ; but where- 
ever this is praAifed, great care Ihould be taken to 
keep them from fpreading over the border, becaufe 
thefe plants will exhauft the principal goodnefs of the 
earth, and thereby injure the trees ; fo that when it is 
defigned to have Strawberries in thefe borders, I would 
advife, that the roots fhould be either planted in pots, 
or fingly at a good diftance on a fhady border of loamy 
earth, one year before they are defigned to be forced ; 
during which time the runners fhould be diligently 
pulled off, to encourage the main roots for fruiting ; 
and at Michaelmas thefe plants may be tranfplantecl* 
with large balls of earth to their roots, into the bor- 
ders, before the fruit-trees which are to be forced the 
following fpring, fo that they may have time to get 
new root before that feafon ; and if thefe plants are 
carefully watered when they begin to fhew their flower- 
buds, they will produce a good quantity of fruit, 
which will ripen the latter end of April, or the begin- 
ning of May ; but then I would alfo advife, that thefe 
plants be taken away as foon as they have done bear- 
ing, that they may not rob the trees of their nourifh- 
ment. 
Since I have mentioned this method of having early 
Strawberries, I jfhall take the liberty to infert another 
method, which is often praAifed to obtain this fruit 
early in the fpring, though it doth not fo properly 
come under this article, which is to train up the plants 
either in pots or borders, after the manner before di- 
reAed, for at leaft one year or more ; then in thebe- 
ginning of February there fhould be a moderate hot- 
bed prepared, in length proportionable to the number 
of plants defigned to be forced, and the breadth fhould 
be proportionable to the width of the frames which 
are defigned to cover them. Thefe frames may be fuch 
as are ufed for common hot-beds, to raife early Cu- 
cumbers, &c. This hot-bed muft be covered with frefh 
loamy earth about eight inches thick, into which the 
Strawberry plants fhould be placed, with large balls 
of earth to the roots, as clofe as they can conveniently 
be planted ; (for as they muft be kept clear from run- 
ners, they will not fpread much during the time they 
remain in the bed, which will be no longer than until 
their fruit is gone.) Then they fhould be gently- 
watered to fettle the earth to their roots, which muft 
be frequently repeated as the earth becomes dry, other- 
wife. they will produce new fruit. While the nio-hts 
continue cold, the glaffes of the hot-bed fhould beco* 
vered with mats, to preferve a kindly warmth in the 
beds j but in the day time,* when the weather is fa- 
vourable 
