Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
The feafon for planting all the forts, is any time in 
open weather, from October or November, to March 
or April. 
They are all very hardy, and may be planted in 
any common foil and flotation, and do not require any 
particular expofure. 
With regard to their refpeCtive ufes in gardening, 
the Common Medlar, as a fruit-tree, demands culture 
in gardens and orchards, a few trees trained principally 
in full and half ftandards, orfome in efpaliers; all the 
other fpecies have merit principally to join or aflemble 
in any general ihrubbery, and ornamental plantations, 
in pleafure-grounds, parks, and other premifes ; dif- 
pofed in a diverfified order, with other hardy fhrubs 
and ornamented trees; and in which may alfo introduce 
the different varieties of the Common Medlar; all ge-' 
nerally trained with a fingle Item below, and to branch 
out above in full heads; and which, permitted to ad¬ 
vance in their natural order, or only to give occafional 
pruning, to reduce any diforderly (hoots and branches, 
that may cafually occur in the advancing growth of the 
different fpecies. 
In refpeCt to the propagation, or methods of railing 
the different forts, it is effected by feed and layers; 
alfo by grafting and inoculation, in any particular fpe¬ 
cies, or to continue the varieties of the Common 
Medlar in their refpeCtive properties, and likewife to 
have the trees fooner attain a fruitful (late. 
The feed for lowing is obtained Trom the ripe fruit 
and berries, and which may be fowed in autumn, about 
October or November, or in the fpring, all in a bed or 
beds of light earth, each fort feparate, either in drills, 
or broad-caft, and earthed in an inch, or an inch and 
half deep; they will come up fome the fir ft fpring, 
others probably not till the fecond: keep the beds clear 
from weeds all fummer, both before and after the 
plants are come up; and when they are of one year’s 
growth in the feed-beds, tranfplant them in the autumn 
or fpring into nurfery-beds, in rows a foot afunder, 
and having irtcreafed in growth, fhould be tranfplanted 
in wider nurfery-lines; and in which generally train 
each with a fingle (lem, pruning off lateral fhoots be¬ 
low, and let them advance in full growth above ; and 
when, according to their different fizes, they are three 
or four, to five or fix feet high, are proper for final 
tranfplanting in the intended plantations. 
By layers of the young wood, they are alfo occa- 
fionally propagated; chufing the young fhoots, either 
thofe rifing naturally near the bottom, or branches fur- 
luihed therewith, bowed down to the ground; and, 
previous to laying, may (lit or gafh the fhoots with a 
knife, a little, on the under fide, in an upwaid cut, to 
promote their emitting roots fooner; lay them with the 
cut^-part into earth three inches deep, keeping the tops 
uprightifh above ground: they will moftly be rooted in 
one year, then fhould be cut from the ftools, and 
planted in a nurfery, &c. 
And by grafting or budding, any of the fpecies 
may likewife be propagated; and by either of which 
it is eligible to raife the Common Medlar, when de- 
figned to have them principally as fruit-trees for their 
production of fruit for eating; performing the graft¬ 
ing in die fpring, by inferring grafts of the intended 
kinds into feedling Medlar ftocks, and the budding or 
inoculation, in fummer, in July, or beginning of Au- 
gult, by inoculating buds into the Tides of the fame 
kind of ftocks; one graft or bud inferted in each, at 
three, four, to five, or fix feet height, for half and 
full ftandards, or low in the flock for trees intended 
for lower growth; the grafts will fhoot the fame year, 
and the buds not till the fpring following; and when 
they have fhot, and formed heads of one, two, or 
feveral years growth, they are proper for tranfplant¬ 
ing where they are defigned to remain. 
The Common Medlars, when defigned for fruit- 
trees, being generally railed by grafting or budding 
the approved kinds into feedling-ltocks of any of the 
varieties, principally trained for half and full ftandards, 
with Items, three, or four, to five or fix feet; they, 
when advanced with heads, two or three, to feveral 
years growth, with fome tolerable fpread of branches, 
are proper for planting in gardens and orchards, 
twenty or thirty feet diftance, their heads permuted to 
branch out full in their natural growth. 
Or fome grafted or budded low in the flock, within 
fix or eight inches of the ground, to plant in efpaliers, 
at fifteen feet afunder, and the branches arranged to 
the trellis horizontally, five or fix inches diftance, and 
extended moftly at their full length, as far as their al¬ 
lotted fpace admits, as directed for apples and pears, 
trained in efpaliers; as, like thefe forts, they bear 
principally upon fmall fpurs, along the fides, and at 
the ends of branches, and the fame branches continu¬ 
ing many years fruitful, do not admit of fhortening ; 
and in this mode of planting, will require an anqual 
pruning and training, according to the directions giv¬ 
en for efpalier apples and pears aforefaid; for which, 
fee the Genus Pyrus. 
The Medlar fruit, acquiring full growth in Octo¬ 
ber, fhould be gathered in dry weather, and depo- 
fited in the fruitery, &c. upon fhelves, till they be¬ 
come foft and mellow; or to promote which, more 
effectually and fooner, fome may be laid in moift brag 
every week ; they will thus acquire maturity, in fuc- 
ceffive order, in thei peculiar manner, foft, tender, 
and buttery, in which they will be in perfection, 
for eating, all winter, delicious, and agreeably fla¬ 
voured. 
Morus 
