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Show AP ary found none of myProfeffion of fuch mercen Tempers, as to condemn me for telling T ruth, tho’ it may not always exactly agree with their prefent Interefts ; but enough of this at prefent, Jet us now return to our Planting. When the Seafon for Planting is come, as was before direéted, we muft make Choice of good thriving Trees, of about three Years grafting, but by no means chufe old Trees, as is the Practice of fome, thinking thereby to fave Time; whereas a young thriving Tree, will in three or four Years after Planting, over- AP are guilty of ; for too much Wet rots all the In the Diftribution of the Quarters, I would But if your Trees have made but three new Roots, which are very tenderfor the firft and fecond Years, and very fubject to Damage during that Time ; but if you can conve- advife that they are not too {mall, which ren- Shoots the firft Summer, then at-Michaelmas ders themunfit for many forts of Kitchen Stuff, and alfo occalions your Efpaliers to be too near fhorten the uppermoft to three Eyes, leaving it upright*in the Middle of the Tree, and fhorten the two Side-Branches to five or fix Eyes, in proportion to their Strength, training them as horizontally as poflible; and if they fhould have produced but two Shoots the firft Year, then it would be advifable to fhorten both of thefe to four Eyes each, for Reafons before given. The fecond Year you muft obferve to train niently procure a Quantity’ of Green-fward, par’d from a Common, &c. and lay a hitle of it round the Foot of each Tree, foas to cover the Surface about three Feet round the Stem, with the Grafs downwards ; this will preferve the Ground from drying* too faft, and render one Watering of more Service than three or four would otherwife be. The next Winter, take oneofthefe old ones, and makefar better after planting, this Turf will be rotted, you fhould therefore, early in J ebruary, when the Nor fhould you take Trees fromarich Soil, great Frofts are over, gently dig up the Ground about each Tree, bury this rotten Turf in the Bottom, which will keep the Ground loofe, and greatly promote the Growth of the Trees. An Orchard or Garden thus planted, and manag’d, will afiord the Owner no fmall Pleafure, by the Advance the Trees Trees in a few Years than they everwill do: to plant into a poor one; or from a wet Soil, for a dry one, but endeavour, if poffible, to have your Trees froma Soil as near in Qua- lity to your own as poffible, or rather from one i that is not quite fo good as yours. — In preparing thefe Trees for planting, cut off all broken or bruifed Roots, or fuch as crofs will make, and mutt as greatly redound to his and gall each other; as alfoall {mall Fibres, Profit. I fhall now proceed to ¢ which rarely furvive a Remove, (unlefs the or EfpaTrees are planted immediately after taking planting Dwarfs, eitherfor § dard-trees up, before the Wind has dry’d them) andare liers ; tho’? I muft own, Dwart very fubject to mould androt, and are often are what I fhould never advife any Perfon to prejudicial to the new Roots, by obftructing plant, for their Heads co, in time, growfo ar their Stems, their Progrefs, and many times deftroy them large, that there is no getti foon after they are produc’d, by the fpreading fo that the Ground between them is wholly of the Mouldinefs which they had taken quite ufelefs for any Purpofe ; nor can the Sun reach round the older Roots: You mutt alfo at the to warm the Ground and diffipate crude Vafame time, take off fome ofthe moft luxuriant Branches, and fhorten others, fo as to reduce pours, fo that the Fruit can never be fo well- the Head to a handfome Figure, and moderate enjoyall the Adv antages of Sun and free Air; but if you are determin’d to have Dwarf-trees, you muft allow them a large Diftance from Size, but by no means cut and lop the Head in fuch an unmerciful manner as fome do, for a moderate Proportion of Head is abfolutely neceflary to furnifh Nourifhment to the Roots, until new ones are produc’d to fupply the Heads, and the making large Wounds at both Parts of the Tree @t the fame time, mutt be very hurtful. Your Trees being thus prepar’d, make a Hole with a Spade where each Tree is to ftand, about two Feet deep, more orlefs, according to the Size oftheir Roots ; and fo likewife in Width, according to the fame Proportion, making it level in the Bot- tom, andbreaking all hard Clods; then place the Tree in the Center of the Hole, as upright as poffible ; and while one Perfon keeps the Tree in its right Pofition, another fhould, with a Spade, break the Earth, andlay it in between the Roots, fhaking the Tree, the better to let the Earth fall between every Root, that there maybe no Cavityleft: Then with your Feet, gently prefs the Earth down to faften and fettle the Tree ; and if the Weather prove dry, it will not be amifs to give each Tree a good Watering, whichwill fix the Earth to them, and greatly forward their Production of new Roots You fhould alfo, if the Heads of the Trees are large, fixa Stake to each Tree, to prevent their being fhaken with the Winds, which would difturb and greatly injure the new Roots: Andifthe Seafon after planting fhould prove very dry, you muft repeat your Waterings, but do not over-water them, which isa Fault many People AP tafted as thofe produc’d from Efpaliers, which each other ; twenty-four Feet {quare is the leaft they fhould be planted ; and when the Trees begin to make Shoots, they mutt be faften’d down to Stakes, drove into the Ground all round the Tree, as horizontallyas poffible, for if you fuder the Branches at firft to grow upright, you can never after reduce them to a proper Figure, without cither quite cutting down the Branches, or plafhing and mangling them fo much as often to canker and decay the Tree. In pruning thefe Trees, great Care fhould be taken to keep their middle Part free from Wood as poffible, and not fuffer each other, which fhould always be avoided: The Extent of thefe Quarters ought to be in proportion to the Bignefs of the Garden 5 in a large Ground they may be two hundred and fifty Feet {quare, or three hundred Feet long, and one hundred Feet broad, according to the Figure of the Garden ; and in {mall Gardens one hundred feet fquare is as much as can be allowed, and the Walks between the Efpaliers fhouldalfo be in breadthaccording to the fame Proportion. When your Groundis prepar’d for Planting, you fhould endeavour to make Choice of Trees which fhoot nearly alike, to plant in each Efpalier, by which means you may the better proportion their Diftances, in order to have the Efpaliers ofan equal Height, and not to intermix weak-fhooting ‘Trees amongft the moft luxuriant, which would occafion a very unfightly Hedge. The Diftance thefe Trees fhould be planted, if on Crab or Free Stocks, fhould be, for large fhooting Trees, twenty Feet, andforthe weaker, fixteen; but if they are on Paradife Stocks, ten or twelve Feet will be fufficient : The manner of preparing and planting thefe Trees being the fame with thofe before-mention’d, I fhall not repeat it, but refer the Reader thereto; but only fhall obferve here, that it will be proper to head thefe Trees to about four Eyes above the Graft, and never to chufe ‘Trees more than two years old from the Time of Grafting, for older Trees are not fo fubject to break out when headed, their Bark being for the moft part hard, and the Wounds given to old Trees are not fo foon healed as in young ones. The Summer following, you muft provide a Parcel of fmall Stakes, of about three Feet long, to drive into the Ground oneach Side of your Trees; four to each Tree will be fufficient ; to thefe Stakes you muft faften the new Shoots, as they are produced, as horizon- tally as poffible, and not fuffer them to grow upright, as is the too common Prattice of many $ for the Branches being thus train’din Summer, will want no Force or Violence to be their Branches tocrofs each other: The farther Particulars 1 thall refer to the pruning of E/paliers, which will alfo agree for Du rj54 excepting what I have already mention’d. paliers are commonly planted to furround Quarters of a Kitchen-Garden, in which Place they have a very good Effect, if rightly planted and manag’d, rendring it not in the ufed in Winter, to bring them to their proper Places, nor will their Shoots be fo grofs and leaft inferior to the fineft Parterre, undermoft may be left fix or eight Joints in Length, in proportion to their Strength 5 but or mot finifh’d Pleafure Garden: For what can be more agreeable than to walk between regular Hedges of Fruit-trees, which early in the Spring are cover’d with beautiful Flowers, and in Summer and Autumn, are charg’dwith noble Fruits of different Kinds ; and the Kitchen Stuff in the Quarters are entirely hid from Sight, and alfo fereen’d from the Injuries of Weather? In ftubborn, If the Trees have taken kindly,it is very probable that all the four Eyes have produced in all new Shoots horizontally, as in the firft, and to difplace all fore-right Shoots, which will not come handfomely into the Efpalier, as faft as they are produced, that they may not exhauft the Nourifhment of the Tree: At Michaelmas fhorten the Shoots in the middle Parts of the Tree, or where Branches are wanted to fill up Vacancies ; but for ever after be cautious. of unmerciful lopping or fhortning of Branches, for the more you cut, the more they fhoot, and there is no Way fo fure in the Management of all Fruits, as to leave their Branches at full length, where the Treeis fully fupply’d with Wood, training them as horizontally as may be, which will prevent their luxuriant fhooting ; befides, in many Sorts of Fruits, the Bloflom-buds are firft produced at the Extremity ofthe laft Year’s Shoots, fo that if they are cut off, you deftroy the greateft Part of your Crop. Thefe few Rules, with diligent Obfervation, will be fufficient for the well-regulating and managing your Efpaliers, fo as to reap both Profit and Pleafure. APPLES OF LOVE ; vide Lycoperficon & Solanum. MAD APPLES ; vide Melongena. APRICOCK or ABRICOT ; or, in Latin, Malus Armeniaca, Wehave in the Engli/h Gardens about eight Sorts of this Fruit cultivated ; whichare, The Mafculine Apricock. The Orange Apricock. The Algier Apricock. The Roman Apricock. The The . The The Turkey Apricock. Iranfparent Apricock. Breda Apricock. Bruxelles Apricock. Shoots; if fo, at Michaelmas (which I would Thefe Fruits are all propagated by budding them on Plumb-ftocks, and will readily take fix for the Timeof Pruning) cut the twoupper- upon almoft any fort of Plumb, provided the moft Shoots to four Eyes each, in order to furnifh your Tree with Branches, but the two Stock be free andthriving (except the Bruxelles let me lay it down for a Rule, never to fhorten any Shoots in Summer, unlefs it be to furnifh ranches to fill up a Vacancy in the Efpalier, and this fhould never be done after May; for Shoots which are produced after Midjummer, are never duly ripened and prepared, fo can never be proper, either for the Production of Wood orFruit. kind, which is ufally budded on a fort of Stock commonly call’d the St. Fulian, which better fuits this Tree, as being generally planted for Standards, than any other fort of Plumb will do): The manner of raifing the Stocks, and budding thefe Trees, fhall be treated of under their particular Articles, to which I refer the Reader, and fhall proceed to their Planting and Management. Thefe Trees are all (except the two laft forts) Pppes againft Walls, and fhould have an |