15 * THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
decayed or barren (late, cut them off clofe, alfo all 
naked, barren flumps. 
According as each tree is pruned, as above, let it 
be nailed to the wall, &c. in regular order, arranging 
the branches horizontally, all (till at their full length, 
three or four, to five or fix inches afunder, and nailed 
in ftraight, and clofe to the wall; cr thofe in efpa- 
liers have the branches tied and nailed occafionally to 
the rails of the trellis. 
Thus far concludes the general culture of the Plum 
and Cherry, in flandards, wall-trees, and efpaliers. 
As to .the other fpecies of the Plum and Cherry 
kinds, confiding of the Bullace, Sloe, different forts 
of Bird-Cherry, See they are admitted in plantations, 
for van ty, and may be propagated by feed, the 
Bones ot the fruit, fowed in the autumn or fpring, 
and by layers, and fome by fuckers; or any particular 
forts are alfo raifed by grafting and budding, as ob- 
ferved of the cultivated varieties of tire Plum and 
Cherry. 
Or alfo, to plant for variety and ornament, may 
introduce the common Plum and Cherry kinds, and 
great Wild Cherry Tree, &c. and their refpeCtive va¬ 
rieties ; all raifed as above. 
But thefe, and the Bullaces, Sloe or Blackthorn, 
great Wild Cherry, &c. may, for common ufe in 
plantations, be raifed abundantly from the ftones of 
the fruit; and the Sloe-Plum alfo, plentifully by fuck¬ 
ers from the root, where required to plant this kind 
For hedges, in fields. Sec. 
Or any defirable varieties of the Bullace, Damfon, 
or great Wild Cherry, &c. may be propagated by 
grafting or budding, to continue thefe forts in their 
improved date. 
Early Plums and Cherries are obtained by having 
trees thereof in forcing-houfes, by the .aid of which 
Cherries are ripened in April and beginning of May, 
and Plums in May and June: having, for this purpofe, 
young trees of the moft efteemed early and other kinds, 
generally fuch as are advanced to a bearing flate; both 
in dwarf trees, in fmall flandards, and to train againft 
Z trellis, in the wall or efpalier-tree manner; and 
fome alfo in half and taller flandards, efpecially Cher¬ 
ries, to elevate the heads near the top glaffes of the 
forcing-houfe; and may all be planted in autumn, 
abcut October or November, in the borders within; 
or alfo fome fmall trees of Cherries, &c. in pots in¬ 
troduced; or fometimes forcing apartments are al¬ 
lotted principally for Cherries, the bottom fpace be¬ 
ing wholly of good earth, a proper depth, and the 
trees planted in crofs-rows from the back to the 
front, in tall, half, and dwarf flandards. 
Though in general forcing-houfes, fcveral forts of 
fruit-trees are introduced in affemblage. 
The forcing is commonly commenced by fire-heat, 
in the middle or end of January, or beginning of Fe¬ 
bruary; or is occafionally effected by bark-bed heat; 
and the heat, in both methods, continued moderately 
till the fruit is advanced to perfection, in April, Maj-, 
Sec. obferved for Peaches and Nectarines, under the 
Genus Amygdalus. 
Apricot Kinds. 
The Apricot being confidered as a fpecies of the 
Prunus family, but requiring fome different manage¬ 
ment in the general culture,_it is eligible to explain it 
under a feparate head. 
This fpecies of Prunus, Apricot Tree, differs 
fomewhat in its general mode of bearing from the 
Plum and Cherry; it, in all the varieties, produces the 
fruit principally upon the young wood of one year’s 
growth, andlikewife upon fmall, natural fpurs, arif- 
ing on the two and three years old branches; but ge¬ 
nerally bears the principal fupply of fruit moftly upon 
the young (hoots of a year old; that is, the fhoots 
produced one year bear fruit the year following, emit¬ 
ting the bloffom-buds immediately from the eyes 
thereof along the fides; and of which young fhoots, in 
the operation of pruning the wall and efpalier Apricots, 
a general fupply of the beft-placed, of middling-flrong 
growth, mull be retained every year in all parts of 
the trees, for fucceflional bearers, and the fuperfluous 
and improper (hoots thereof, with part of the naked, 
old bearing-wood cut out in the winter-pruning, to 
make room for the young fupply; but where eligi¬ 
ble fruit-fpurs appear on the two or three years wood, 
above-intimated, the faid branches and fpurs are pro¬ 
per to referve occafionally, as they alfo produce fruit 
in good perfection. 
And as the young fnoots retained for principal bear¬ 
ers, as above, both produce fruit, and a fupply of 
young fnoots at the fame time, for next year’s bear¬ 
ing, and which (hoots are alfo produced occafionally 
upon the older wood, and, in both of which, a plen¬ 
tiful abundance mull be referved in fummer, and 
trained in moilly at their full length all that feafon; 
but in winter-pruning, feleCting a fufficiency of the 
well-placed (hoots, cutting out the fuper-abundancy 
and all ill-placed, with Angularly luxuriant (hoots, 
the remaining proper (hoots (hould be then (hortened 
moderately, both to encourage their producing colla¬ 
terals more effectually, and properly fituated on the 
lower and middle, as well as the upper parts, to train 
m to feleCt from, for next year’s bearers ; as, when not 
(hortened in winter-pruning, the fucceflional bearing- 
(hoots are apt to advance principally only towards the 
upper parts of the mother (hoots or bearers, and 
which would moilly be naked below, whereby the 
lower 
