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Show ATE? AP are all the true Apocynums , and therefore fhould not be planted in the wayof Children, ing any Damage by t who may re part of the Plant, and letting the milky Juice, with which they abound, run upon thetel der tried it, ar i it will do: This Plant pr ; beautif Imbels of colour’d Flowers, which abide mof t I art of the Month of Augufl and deferve a Place in the moft curious Garden. This is vwated by Royal Ruffeit Monftrous Reinette Winter Pearmain Pomme Violette Spencer’s Pippin parting the Roots in March, or fowingthe eds, wl in a good Seafon do ripen toler- Stone Pippin. Part of their Fleth, whichwill be apt tob ifter ed by it; thefe Flowers are fometimes fucceed large oblong Pods, which contain @ great ably well with us. heres to the Seeds, andare of Service to traniport them to a Diftance when ripe. I is Plant APPLE Quantity of a foft cottony Subit: the dies to the Root in Winter, and rifesagain fucceeding Sprin i The fecond, third, fourth, and tenth Sorts, are all of themvery hardy, and may be planted by the Latin Malus. The Charaéfers are 3 ‘he Fruit ] of this 5 in the open Ground, but muft have a dry Soil thefe all of them produce large fine Flowers, e propagated by parting their Roots in Iree is for the moft part be Cells in which y cartilaginous th; and may be March after the cold Weather is paft, for they ] feldom produce ripe Seeds with us. The fifth, fixth, feventh, andeighth Sorts, are tender, and mutt be preferv’d in Pots, and hous’d in Winter. The fifth and fixth Sorts will grow very Shrubby, and fometimes to the Heighth ofeight or nine Feet, and do produce Bunches of Flowers, whichin the fixth Sortare of a whitifh Green, There area great Varietyof thefe Fruits propagated in England, either for the Kitchen, the t, or to make Cyder: I fhall mention the moft curious Sorts for each Purpofe, omitting the ordinary Kinds, as not worth naming, and fhall then proceed to their Culture and Management, Defert, plac’d according to their Times of Ripening. Hot-bed, and fhading them from the great Heat of the Sun, giving them gentle Refrefhings of Water. Thefe muft have a good Green- houfe in Winter, and muft not have too much k r in that V The feventh Sort is a climbing Plant, and Summer will twift itfeif round a Stake, and grow to La Calville d’Ejte blanche ; white Calville. which are extremely fweet: Thisis propagated by laying down the young Shoots, which do Root, or by parting the Roots of eafily take the old Plants. Theeighth Sort is the moft tender of them and requires a moderate Stoveto preferve all, it in Winter ; this produces extreme beautiful fcarlet Flowers, which often are fucceeded by This Plant may be increas’d by planting the Cuttings in Zune, in a moderate Hot-bed, but muft have little Water, and'be violent Heat of the Sun, and fecured from the Nights; but the beft way to the Cold of the propagate them, is by fowing the Seeds in a ; and when the Plants are Hot-bed in Ma comeup, prick theminto fmall Pots, and plunge them into another Hot-bed to bring themfor- ward ; and in June you may begin to expofe them to the open Air, at whichtime they will begin to flower 5 but it will be advifable to preferve one or two of the ftrongeft in the Hotbed, in order to procure good Seeds. The ninth Sort is tolerably hardy, and only requires to be fcreen’d from the extreme Cold in Winters and I believe, if ic were planted into the full Ground, under a warm Wall, it would do very well, but as I have not yet Devonfhire Royal Wilding Red Streak’d Apple The Whitfour Golden Reinet or, Sumnner Fohn Apple; or Deux-Anne’s. Thefeveral Sorts of Apples areplanted, either as Standards, in Orchards or Gardens, or Dwarfs, or in Efpaliers, and fometimes againit Walls : are defign’d for Standards, fhould rafted on Crab-ftocks, which are much hardier, and of longer Duration than any ; but thofe that are de*d for Dwarfs, or Efpaliers, may be afted, either on the Paradife-ftock, Codling, - any other Sort of Apple-ftock that doth not fhoot too freely. The Manner of Graft- ing will be defcrib’d under its proper Article ; La Calville d’Efté rouge ; or Summer red Calville Silver Pippin Aromatick Pippin. La Reinette grife La Hante-bonté Royal Ruffetting Wheeler's Ruffett Sharp’s Ruffett Le Fonouillet, or Pome dauis; Apple Stocks, will be explain’d in the Article of Nurferies, to which I refer the R sader, and 1d Ground, one good Plough- ing will be fi or Spice Golden Pippin Nonpareil L’ Api; or, Homme a’ Api A Lift of fuch Apples as are preferr’d for Kitchen Ufe, plac’d nearly according t0 their Times of Ripening. Codling Summer Marygold Summer red Pearmain The it. Seafon for French Pippin Planting, fuffer me to make alittle Digreffion, not altogether foreign to our prefent Pur- pofe ; whichis to take Notice Error, in planting ofF dernefs-Trees or of a prevailing lens, like Wil s, Clofe toge- ther, and m in each Divifion, in fuch ar two Trees of the fame each other, fuppofing ts of Fruits , that no kind fhall each ferent Particles from ftand near Tree rrOU Nourifhment, « 2 for their them to grow, as they are naturall lifpos’d, without ever pruning them, hereby hoping to have gr i f Fruit, with very Nowgranting t little Trouble ion to be true, (though Iam fully convine’d of the contrary) yet how abfurd is it to think, that what litt uit may be produc’d in this Way, can b equally fo good or wholfome, as thofé which are the Produét of healthy Trees, and hay the Advantages of a free Air, and the Benefit of the kindly Sun, to correct anddiffipate tl Crudities of the Earth round the Roots, thofe moift Vapours which are almoft con ally perfpiring from the Trunks, B | Leaves of thefe Trees, vehich for want of the Air’s free Admittance, are conftan ring ns; and in but in a wet Soil, it about the Trees in thefe Pla cold Weather, or the Night-time 1ry. The Diftance thefe Trees ought to be Trees are in a State of Refpiration, lanted, is at forty feet fquare, that the Vapours are imbib’d throughthe Sun and Air mayfreely pafs to every Part of Leaves, and mix’d with the Juices, and are Tre ipate all crude and unhealthy protruded through the Veflels, and enter the which are either exhal’d from the Fruits, whereby they muft be render’dill, or produc’d from the Perfpiration of tafted and unwholfome. But as this Practice was introduc’d by the Trees, and are many times the Caufe of 3hi re, at leaft, abforb’d again by the fome Perfons who were intirely ignorant of s, when in a State of Refpiration, and what they undertook, and fet out upon wrong occafion the Fruit to be crude andill- Principles of Philofophy, fo, I hope, the d, which is too often attributed to the Gentlemen to whom this Method may be hen the only Caufe of it may betheir propos’d, will be fo kind to theméelves, as to being too clofely planted. This Diftance, many waita little and fee the Effect of thofe Plantale will, perhaps, think too much, but I tions already made, before theyfet on Foot fa it would be ftill better, could they wild a Project. Indeed, I am aware how many Enein "d ity Feet Diftance Row from the great Dem, Feet in the Rows; nor would fhall raife by retrenching ng of Cherries, or any other » till they are y > but rather, fhould: be j Le Courpendu ou Pomme de Bardin ; or, Th Hanging Body Loan’s Pearmain French Reinette fe Trees, if 7, as foon as the Holland Pippin Kentifh Pippin planti and how can wefuppofe to eat kindly Fruit from difteraper’d ‘Trees ; We may with as much Juttice, affirm, thata diftemper’?d Woman will’ dare to, tho’ there is equally the fame Probability in both. Andfince Iam upon this Article of clofe Herefordfbire Underleaf hath been fj Cv will give healthy Milk, which I believe no one leaft twice before plantin be mellow’d, and imbib iitrous Particles of the Air, and that the Turf may be well rotted and mix’d with the Earth; but ifit Embroi for want of which Tree in them, the g 2 them being either canker’d, or cover’d over with Mofs; proceed to the Manner ofplanting them out for good. If you intend to make a new Orchard, the Soil fhould be plough’d 5 if a Green-fward, at fandy Earth, plunging them into a moderate the Height of feven or eight Feet, and in Summer will produce from the Joints {mall Umbels of worn-out purple-colour’d Flowers, Soil, and the Manner ofraifing and managing the A Lift of fuch Apples as are proper for a and thei with their clofe ftanding vaft Numbers of Orchards that have fcarcely a healthy Oaken Pin Thofe that and the fifth of a worn-out purple Colour, but are of no great Beauty or Smell. Thefe are increas’d by planting Cuttings in any of the Summer Months, in Pots of light Crops have been exceeding good, ‘Trees much improyv’d by the turning of A Lift of fuch Cyder Fruits as are in Efteem for that Purpofe. that ad- Tree, foire, and other Counties in England, that thei Corn, or any other s if it were intirely open; and it hath enc’d by feveral People in Hereford- for Fruit-trees, which mull of Necefi made in the feveral Nurferies in Eng this Practice be continu’d; but as I fhall, through the whole Book, deliver my Senti- ments freely, on every Article here treated of, aiming at nothing more than the Information ofamy Readers, fo Lhope there will be found |