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aside, and without the assistance of stakes 
cannot be trained properly, to obtain clean 
good-flavored fruit, besides they have the 
advantage in the neatness of their appear- 
ance, particularly in a gentleman’s garden. 
In training young plants, attend them 
during the summer season, encouraging 
proper shoots, and rubbing away all awk- 
ward and useless ones ; leaving what is only 
convenient for the winter pruning: what 
you take off* at that time, cut neat and 
close, leaving no stumps or spurs. Top 
the principal branches or shoots, according 
to their strength, &c. 
Should your trees be in danger of break- 
ing by an over-load of fruit, drive four- 
forked stakes at right angles round each 
bush; then upon the fork ends rest four 
rods, or slender rails, in order to support 
the branches until the fruit is gathered. 
Watering the roots of berry-trees, with 
dunghill or farm-yard drainings, at the 
time the fruit is setting and swelling, en- 
courages and very much improves both 
the berries and bushes. 
Gooseberries and Currants require cool, 
rich ground, but should not be shaded too 
