Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 1 
lower and middle parts- of the wall.trees would 
become unfurnilhed with proper fupplies of young 
wood. 
But as to the ftandard Apricot trees, they being 
planted detached, and having full fcope to branch out 
freely every way in their natural manner, fur: idling, 
as they advance, both plenty of young bearing wood, 
in fuccelfional annual fupplies, and fruitful fpurs on tire 
two or three years branches, do not require an -' regu¬ 
lar pruning annually, as in the wall-trees, only need 
occaftonal regulation, to cut out cafual, irregula and 
very crouded branches, and decayed wood, pern tiing 
the < 5 ther general branches to advance in their full 
growth. 
Propagation or Method of raif.ng the Trees. 
The propagation or method of raifing ricot trees 
is principally by budding or inoculating crus of the 
different varieties, or of any deferable forts upon Plum 
flocks, in Ji'v or beginning cf Augufl, i ferted into 
the fide of the flock one bud in each, at fix or eight 
inches, for common wall-trees, and at three or four to 
five or fix feet height, icr half and full andards; and 
the buds remaining dormant till ne fpj 'rg, when the 
flocks being then headed down a little above the infec¬ 
tion of the buds, thefe pufh forth each one llrong 
fhoot, and forms the new tree of the refpective fort. 
To proceed in the above propagation, proper fup¬ 
plies cf flocks, c-.i which to perform lie budding, muft 
be railed, and which Ihould be pr incipally Plum flocks 
being more hardy and durable than flocks of their 
own kind, raifing them fro - ■ fuckers or ft nes of the 
fruit, or both; though they are alfo budded occafion¬ 
ally upon thofe of Apricots raifed from the Hones; but 
the Plum flock is moft advifeable for the general fup¬ 
plies; and which, as above obferved, may either be 
young fuckers, produced from the roots of Plum 
Trees, taken off and planted in nurfery-rows in au¬ 
tumn, winter, or fpring, or by ftones of the Plums, 
fowed in autumn in beds of common earth, one or two 
inches deep; and when the feediing flocks are a year 
old, o- of one or two fummers growth, Ihould be 
tranfph.r.ted in autumn or fpring into the nurfery, in 
row. two or tlv-ee feet afur.der, in which to advance 
in growth, o<>e, two, or three years; training the flocks 
in g al e cl. with a Angle Item, and when half an 
inch to an inch thick they are proper for budding; 
whic’ Ihould be perfo.med in July or beginning of Au- 
guft, a: before inti rated; when, for the buds, take off a 
quantity of cuttiiy of young Ihoots of the trees of 
the different or rel'peftive varieties intended for propa¬ 
gation, and from which Ihoots take the buds for ino- 
cul “ion, one at a time, and inferted into the fide of 
the locks, which Ihould previoufly have the lateral 
(hooi^ pruned off, continuing the top entire, fo infert 
one bud into each flock, performing it low in the 
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flock, within about five to fix or eight inches of the 
bottom, for common dwarf wall-trees and for efpaliers ; 
and at three or four to five or fix feet for half and tall 
ftandard wall-trees, to be planted occafionally between the 
common dwarf trees, to cover the upper parts of high, 
walls, while the latter are advancing below, efpecially 
wi. re cquired to have the walls completely covered 
as Icon as poff.ble, to afford a more plentiful produc¬ 
tion of fruit; or likewife fome may be budded on tall 
flocks, as above, or budded low, and the firft (hoot 
rjn up for a ffem, for half and full common ftandards, 
to plant detached in the open ground, to branch out in 
full heads; particularly the Breda, Bruffels and Dun- 
more Apricot, or any others, occafionally. 
Thus having performed the budding, the buds re¬ 
maining dormant till the fpring following, and the 
head of the flock continuing, then, in the beginning 
of March, the flocks Ihould be headed down, cutting 
them off Hoping, three inches above the infertion of 
the bud, which will thenfoon after advance, each in a 
ftrong (hoot, two or. three feet in length, the fame 
year. 
The young trees thus raifed, advancing at firft with’ 
one ftrong fhoot, this, either the fame year, in fum- 
n.er, or the following fpring, Ihould be headed down 
to obtain lateral branches, to form the head; fo that to 
effeft this, the above firft fhoot may either be topped 
the fame year early in June, and will thereby furnifti 
feveral lateral Ihoots the fame feafon, or the faid firft 
main fhoot is generally permitted to run in its full 
growth all fummer and continued intire till next March, 
then headed down to about fix or eight inches, or to 
fo many eyes, and it will then foon after pufh forth 
four, five, or more, collaterals, to give the head it* 
firft proper formation, training the Ihoots, when of 
due length, in a fpreading order, to form the tree for 
the walls; or if any are defigned for detached ftand¬ 
ards, they being alfo headed down as above, permit 
them to fhoot out freely every way to form full heads. 
The young Apricot trees, as above, are proper for 
final tranfplar.ting into the garden, againft walls. Sec. 
or occafionally for detached ftandards, when they are 
from one, two, or three, to four or five years old, ei¬ 
ther of but one fummer’s growth, with the firft (hoot 
from the budding intire, and planted in the autumn or 
fpring following, and the faid firft fhoot to be headed 
down in March, as above advifed, to force out a fup- 
ply of lower lateral (hoots; or the trees remain in the 
nurfery, for heading down, and trained therein for two 
or three years, or more, or till advanced in fome tole¬ 
rable fpread of branches and arrived to a bearing 
ftate, then planted in the places where they are to con¬ 
tinue. 
Or trees for planting, of a proper growth, as above, 
may be had at the public nurferies, in the different vaw 
rieties. 
