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pliant branches, or occafionally young branches of 
two or three years old, furnifhed with a terminal 
fhoot; and to perform the laying, bow down the 
fhoots or branches, opening an oblong cavity in the 
earth, lay the Item or body of the branch, or fhoot 
therein three or four, to five or fix inches deep, pegged 
down and earthed over, railing the top of each layer 
feveral inches to a foot above ground, not fhortened, but 
preferved intire, they will be properly rooted by the 
following Oftober, when, or in November or fpring, 
may be feparated from parent tree or flool, with good 
roots, and planted either in a nurfcry for one, two, or 
three years, to increafe in growth, and acquire a head 
of branches; or fome of the ftrongeft may be planted 
at once in the places where they are to continue; ef- 
pecially for wall and efpalier trees, and in either 
methods train them as advifed for the fucker-raifed 
trees, to have them for walls, efpaliers, and ftand- 
ards, or either of which, as recmired. 
And cuttings of fhoots in autumn, or early in fpring, 
will root well in one fummer; chufe, for this occa- 
fion, fome hobuft, fhort-jointed fhoots, of well-ripened 
firm growth, which cutoff at their full length; or 
alfo, where convenient, may take off an inch or two 
of the former years wood, adhering at the bottom of 
the cutting; though this is not abfolutely neceffary, 
only as it may readily occur; preferving each cutting 
Intire at top; fo plant them in a fhady border, inferr¬ 
ed fix or eight inches into the ground, in rows a 
foot or eighteen inches diflance : they will be rooted 
by the end of the following autumn, when, or in 
fpring, they may be tranfplanted either into a nurfery, 
at wider diftances, to train of proper growth, for 
walls, efpaliers, or fiandards, as obferved of the 
others, or planted at once, for wall-trees, where they 
are to remain. 
In the above different methods of railing Fig trees, 
train them for the purpofes intended, either princi¬ 
pally for wall-trees, in which they may be topped in 
the fpring to make them emit lateral fhoots, to form 
a proper fpread from the beginning, to furnifh a regu¬ 
lar expanfion of branches from the bottom upward, 
as before intimated; and after being thus formed in 
the firft fetting off, all the after-fhoots that are well- 
placed may be continued intire, cutting off fore-rights, 
and others as are ill-placed, for training, and train in 
the regular fupply cf branches horizontally to the 
wall at their full length: the fame method ihould alfo 
"be obferved in thofe trees defigned for efpaliers; but 
for fiandards, run up the main fhoot for a Hem, two 
or three, to four, five or fix feet, cutting away all la¬ 
terals till advanced to thofe heights, then permitted to 
branch out at top to form the head, branching out all 
round ; and of which prune cafual irregular-growing, 
or crofs-placed branches, and permit the other gene¬ 
ral branches to advance in their natural growth. 
EGETABLE SYSTEM 
The planting of Fig trees, either for walls, efpa¬ 
liers, or fiandards, fhould generally be performed 
while they are of moderately young growth, of three 
or four, to five or fix feet extent, or but little more, 
as thefe trees do not, like feveral others of the fruit- 
tree kind, fucceed well when tranfplanted of any con- 
fiderable large fize; or where finally planted, whei^ 
young, immediately in fuckers, or rooted layers ana 
cuttings of one or two years old, they commonly foon- 
er eftablifh their roots more effeftually, and make 
profperous trees. * 
To plant them for wall-trees, allot fouth walls, as 
before obferved, for the principal fupply; and fome 
may be planted on eafl and weft walls, or alfo in ef¬ 
paliers ; and, in all of which, planted at fifteen or 
eighteen, to twenty feet diflance; or if planted twen¬ 
ty, a. leaft, afunder, their extending branches will 
compleatly fill that fpace^ which, according as they 
advance, arrange horizontally to the wall and efpa¬ 
lier, five, fix, or eight inches afunder, increafing the 
number of branches annually and trained in at the above 
diftances, one above another, till they cover the wall, 
&c. in a regular expanfion, generally extending the 
fhoots and branches at their whole length; that is, not 
to fhorten the ends of the fhoots, for the reafons be¬ 
fore explained. 
For ftandard Figs, fome trees may be planted in a 
warm fituation, at twenty or thirty feet diflance, and 
the heads permitted to branch out all round nearly in 
their natural order, except, occafionally, to prune 
out any croudirg or ill-growing branches; and when 
the tops of the (hoots, or others, are wholly killed by 
the rigours of froft, prune them in the fpring, down 
to the live wood. 
The wall and efpalier Fig trees will require a fum¬ 
mer and winter pruning and training every year, to 
continue them in eligible regularity, and abundantly 
fruitful. 
The fummer-pruning and drefling of Fig trees 
confifts of giving a regulation in the young fhoots of 
the fame year, in cutting out the irregular and fuper- 
abundant, and nailing in the requifite fupply of the 
proper and well-placed fhoots, both for increafe of 
branches, where neceffary, and for fucceffion bearers 
the year following; and this operation may be com¬ 
menced in June or July at fartheft, when the year’s 
fhoots will be confiderably advanced; obferving of 
which, at this time, to difplace principally only the 
fore-rights, advancing from the front of branches, 
with others as are remarkably ill-placed for training; 
and being careful now to feleft and retain an abundant 
fupply of all the fide-fhoots and terminals at the end of 
the branches, with all other regular-placed fhoots 
that caa be poffibly trained to the wall with tolerable 
regularity. 
