Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
if were, to furnifh others eligibly lituated to form the 
head in a regular expanfion. 
Or where it may be intended to have any of the 
above Almonds trained for wall and efpalier fruit 
trees, for variety, or to obtain earlier and finer fruit, 
they Ihould be budded lower in the Hocks, within fix 
or eight inches of the bottom, and the firfl main fhoot 
from the inferted bud be headed down in March, to 
a few eyes, as advifed above, in order to gain a fupply 
of lateral Ihoots from thofe lower eyes, to form a 
firlt regular fet of branches, proceeding from near the 
ground; and that thefe may alfo furnifh an encreafed 
fupply of others, fo as to cover the wall or efpalier in a 
proper expanfion, regularly from the bottom upward; 
and for which allot them an expofure to the full fun, 
planted in autumn or fpring, twelve to fifteen or 
eighteen feet dillance; training the general branches 
from the beginning in a fpreading, fanned order, hori¬ 
zontally to the wall. &c. four to five or fix inches 
afunder; and continue to encreafe the number of branch¬ 
es every year, giving an annual pruning to cut out 
the fuper-abundant and ill-placed Ihoots, and to retain a 
proper fupply of each year’s bell well-placed Ihoots for 
bearers; cutting out part of the old in winter, to make 
room for training in the bearing fhoots, generall)* ex¬ 
tended at their full length all lummer; and in winter- 
pruning, thofe feledled for bearers. &c. may be Ihort- 
ened about one third, or a little more, or lefs, according 
to their ftrength; net however to cut below the bloflom 
buds, and generally leave the flrong Ihoots longeft, 
the others in proportion; obferving in the whole, nearly 
the fame as directed for the Peaches and Neftarines. 
The Dwarf Almond, in both the varieties thereof, An¬ 
gle and double-flowered, propagate plentifully by fuck¬ 
ers, arifing annually from the roots, which may be 
readily taken up with root fibres to each, in autumn or 
fpring, or any time in open weather, from Odtober or 
November to March, and planted either in a nurfery, 
for a year or two, or till of a proper fize for the fhrub- 
berry; or fome of ftronger growth may be planted 
at once where they are to remain. 
Or thefe two varieties may alfo be propagated by 
budding upon Plum, Almond, or Peach flocks, to 
have them of larger growth, inferting the buds at two 
or three to four or five feet, to form clean Hems, ele¬ 
vating the head that height, to plant for particular 
occafions. 
2d. The Pradlical Culture of the Peach and Nectarine. 
Having, in the foregoing, given the defeription of 
the different fpecies and varieties of the Peach and 
Nedtarine, and relative obfervations thereon, we now 
tome to give the particulars of the pradlical culture of 
both the forts, which being very defirable fruit, the 
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trees of each claim admittance a: principal wall trees; 
and for which they are propagated and railed by inocu¬ 
lating or budding the approved kinds and the varieties 
in general, principally upon Plum Hocks; and when the 
young trees are of from one, two, or three, to four or 
five years growth, thefe are proper for planting agair.ff 
walls, where they are to remain, performing the 
planting in autumn or fpring, or almofi any time in 
mild weather, from Odtober or November, to the 
middle or end of March: they will begin bearing at 
two or three years old, and in their advancing and 
general growth, require ap annual pruning, and nail¬ 
ing every fummer and winter; all of which different 
operations of culture, to be performed according to 
the following general diredtions. 
As the Peach and Nedtarine are fimilar in their gene¬ 
ral growth, and manner of bearing, one method of 
propagation and culture being applicable to both, (hall 
accordingly include them in the following general di¬ 
rections, confiding of the method of propagations, rail¬ 
ing, training, planting, pruning. Sec. and in each of 
which the fame diredtions ferve for all the different- 
varieties of both thefe fpecies of trees. 
All the varieties of Peaches and Nedtarines being of 
the choicefl kinds of Hone fruit, of rich, delicious fla¬ 
vour, deferve principal culture in every garden, more 
or lefs, where there is the accommodation of proper 
fouth walls or good clofe palings, of proper height. 
For the trees of all the varieties of Peaches and 
Nedtarines Ihould always be trained as wall-trees> 
principally againfl fouth walls, on account that as they 
flower early in the fpring, when flrarp cold weather of¬ 
ten prevail, and that the bloflom and young fruit being 
of tender nature, require the afliflance of the warmeit 
walls, to protedt and forward them in proper growth; 
and having the branches arranged clofe to the wall, in 
a thin, fpreading order, to admit the full power of the 
fun to ripen the fruit effedtually, in good maturity, in 
their peculiar rich flavour, as without the trees being 
trained in that order, to walls of a fouth or foutherly 
afpedt, thefe fruit cannot be obtained in tolerable 
crops, nor in any defirable degree of perfedtion, in the 
proper feafons, and therefore Ihould allot fouth walls 
for the trees of the principal varieties; and others may 
be planted againfl fouth-eafl and fouth-weff walls, in 
which they will alfo, in fine feafons, ripen fruit tolerably 
well, and in fucceflion to thofe in full fouth expolures; 
and in which different afpedts they are planted twelve 
or fifteen to eighteen feet afunder. 
They are feldom trained in detached ftandard-trecs, 
as on which, not having the advantage of walls, tiro 
fruit does not ripen in good perfedlion; though, for 
variety, a few might be trained in dwarf and half Hand 
ards, and planted in a warm fituatiou in the full fun. 
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