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Show ee an a taal Senecio PE ; nt in ulch upon r Roots, fery, 1 eighteen the Rows, the Surface to pers prove very dry, you fhould give them alittle Water once a Week, until they have taken Root; after which, they fhould be conftantly kept clear from W , and the Ground be- tween the Rows carefully to Joofen it, fo as that du : tl may remain two or ‘they fhould be planted, where they are to remain to ce Fruit. i removing thefe y ye to prunetheir mane t Roots ¢ any) pretty fhort, and to cut ed Parts of the Roots, as alfo Fibres, which do generally dry, left upon the Roots, after planting , grow mouldy, and decay; fo that they jurious to the new Fibres whichare fhot , and very often prevent Growth of the Trees: But you fhould no means £ > their Heads; for the s which are produced from Stones, are of a more ffpongy Texture, and fo liable to decay when cut, than thofe e budded upon other Stocks. Befides, thefe Trees are defign’d for 2 it is not proper to plant them ag; inft u you fee the Produce of their t, to fhew which of them deferves to be vated); fo they will never require any other pruning, but only to cut out decay’d Branches, or fuch as fhoot out very irregular from the Sides 5 for more thanthis, is gene- ally very injurious to them. In planting thefe Trees, it will be the better to difpofe them fingly in the Quarters of he Kitchen-Garden, where they will thrive nd produce Fruit much ae than if they planted pretty near each other in Rows; nd astheyarethus fingly difpos’d, they will not do much Injuryto the Crops which grow y produced Fruit, youwill nee of their Goodnefs: therefore emas you diflike may bedeftroy’d; thofe which are good may be propagate_ inoculating them upon other Stocks, which is the common Method now practis’d to proé Fruits: Therefore I fhall now IC ato treat of that more particularly e doing of which, I fhall fet down the now cor nmonly practis’d by the y Gardeners; and then propofe fome of my own, as an Improvement or fuch Perfons who are verycurious to have good Fruit. But fi You fhould be ploy ided with Stocks of the and White Pea i efteem’d the two beft : S tocks to inoculate Peaches m3; as alfo fome ( ocks, for fome tender Sorts cf Peaches which PE will not grow upon P. be all proc from the Stone, alrBes. directed in the Article of and not from Suckers, for the Ri laid down. When thefe Stocks have grown in Nurfery two Years, theywill beftronee1 to bud, the Seafon for which is c about Midjummer, when you fhould | fome good Cuttings of of Fruit you intend to pr obferving to take them from he: and fuch as do generally produce a good Quantity of well-tafted Fruit; for verycertain, that any Sort of Fruit ma far degenerated, where this Cafe is want not to be > the fame Kind. Befides, ever Tree is unhealthy, the Buds taken j retain the Difree, according as it hath imbib’d a greater or lefs Quantity of the difter ce. Thus, for Inftance, where a » or z¢ ‘Tree hath been greatly ghted, fo as that the Shoots have grown bufled, and the Leaves curled up toa great Degree. t Diftemper is feldomrecover’d n bythe greateft Art, or at leaf not unc everal Years } nent ; for let the Seafons pro r-fo favourable, yet thefe Trees will con y fhew the fame Dif temper: Which many Perfons are fo weak as to fuppofe a it is no o frefh Blight ; whereas in reality it the Remains of the former Sicknefs, which are fpread andintermix’d with all the Juices of the 5 fo that whatever Buds are taken from fuch Trees, will always retain a Part of the Diftemper. The Cuttings with which you are thus to be provided, fhould always be taken from the Trees either in a Morning or Evening, orelfe in a cloudy Day; forif the y arecut “off when the Sun is very hot, the Shootswill perfpire fo freely, as to leave the Buds deftitute of Moifture, which is often the Caufe of their mifcarrying ; and the fooner thefe are ufed when cut from the Trees, the better they will take. The Manner of this Operation being fully explain’d under the ae ‘of Ii ct My I fhall not repeat it in this place. The Management of thefe Trees during their rem ing Time in the N Chords, whereby it will be render’d very eafy to work; and about the uber you fhould carry it the Borders, which ht proportionableto the Moifture of the Garden; for if the Ground be very wet, it will be advifeable to lay fome Rubbifh in the Bottom of the Border, to drain off the Moifture, and to prevent the Roots of the Trees from running downwards ; then raife the Border of Earth at leaft a Foot above the Level of the Ground, fo that the Roots of the Trees may always remain dry : but if the Groundbe pretty dry, the Borders tho ild not be rais’d abovefour or five Inches 1er- than the Surface, which will be fufficient to allow for their finking. As to the Breadth of thefe ‘Borders, that can’t be too great; but they fhould never be lefs than fix Feet broad where Fruit-Trees are planted; for when the Borders are made very narrow, the Roots of the Trees will be fo confin’d in four -or five Years Time, that they will feldom thrive well after. The Depth of thefe Borders fhouldnot be greater than two t; for where they are prepared to a great Depth, it only intices the Roots ofthe Trees downward, which maybe the Caufe of their fature Barrennefs ; and cut off fmooth any bruifed Roots; as alfo all the fhould be taken off, for the is likewife fet down under that Article: proceed to the Planting of thefe all therek re Trees againft Walls, Efpaliers, or for Standard But as the future Succefs of thefe Trees doth in a great Meafure depend upon the which they are planted; fo I fhall bi fet down the Method of Preparing Earth for the Borders where they 4 to grow. The beft Earth for Peach defi h Trees, as is taken from a Pafture Ground, t! neither too ftiff and moift, nor over-dry, of a middling Nature; This fhould be from the Surface of the Ground abot C Inches deep, taking the Turf with it; é fhould belaid in Heaps eight ort¢ : before it be ufed, during w hich Time be often turn’d, to rot the Turt, for their Roots being got down below the Influences of the Sun and Showers, do imbibe a great Quantity of crude Juices; which only add to the luxuriant Growth of the Tr and deftroy their FruitfulnefS: befides, whatever Fruit are produced from fuch Trees, not near fo well-tafted, as are thofe which grow upon thofe Trees whofe Roots lie near the Surface, and enjoy the kindly Benefit of the Sun’s Heat, to correct and digeft whatever Crudities there may be in the Earth. Your Borders being thus prepar’d fhould lie about three Weeks or a Monthto fettle, by which time the Seafon for Planting will be me, Which fhould be perform’d as foon as Leaves begin to decay, that thé Trees ary take Root before the Froft comes on to them: Then you fhould carefully Trees out of the Nurfery, fo as or bruife their Roots; and with us prepar’d your Trees, you out their Diftance, which to be lefs than fourteen Feet ; the Ground is very good, they ] d fixteen Feet afunder. This, t too great a Diecially finceit is il Practice at this Time : whoever fhall try the E i ill find it no morethan is fufficient are rightly indly to the 5 maLy be fo train’d, as to e Wall ina few PE regarded, and not, as is too often the Pra run upthe Shoots in Hei lower Part of the Wood; fo that, in a a Years, not be any Fruit but upon the upper P the Trees: which alfo mutt be the Caf they are planted too clofe; be ing no Room to extend the Bi either Side, they are obliged to Upright, which produces the beforeill Effect. And here I can’t help taking notice of other very great Error in planting Wal Fruit ; which is, the placing Stan Half-Standard ieee between the others, to cover the upper Part of the Wall, and to produce Fruit, until the Trees underneath ar grown ve fufficient to furnifh the Walls, vy the Standards are to bee taken away: T done, without confidering that the Number of Trees are planted in a fma Compafs, the lefs Nourifhment they canreceive, and fo, confequently, muft be the weaker; for the fame Space of Ground can’t nourifh twenty Trees equally as well as it could ten: So that whatever Strength the Standard Trees may have, the Dwarfs will be proportionably weaker: And it is a common Obfervation, that moft Trees extend their Roots as far under-ground, as their Branches fpread above-ground ; fo that there fhould always be the fame Allowance given to the WallTrees, if we would have them ftrong andvi- gorous; therefore the building very high W alls for Fruit is to no Purpote, for a ten or twelve Foot Wall will be fufficient for moft Sorts of Fruit. But to return to Planting: After you have mark’d out the Places where each Tree is to ftand, you muft with your Spade make a Hole wide enoughtoreceive the Roots ofthe Tree ; then you fhouldplace it down, obferving to turn the Bud outwards, that the wounded Part of the Stock may be hid, andlet the Stem of the Tree be placed about four or five Inches from the Wall, with its Headinclining thereto; then fill in the Earth with your Hands, obferving to break the Clods, that the Earth may fall in between the Roots, fo as no void Spaces may beleft about them, You fhould alfo gently fhake the Tree with your Hands, to fettle the Earth down the betters then with your Foot geatts prefs. down the Earth about the Stem; “but do not tread it down too hard, which is manytimes a very great Fault; for when the Groundisinclinable to bind, the treading of it clofe doth often render the Ground fo hard, as that the tender Fibres of the Roots can’tftrikeinto it, whereby the Tree remains at a Stand for fome Time 3 and if the Earth be not loofen’d in Time, it frequently dies; fo that whenever you ob ferve the Earth of your Borders to be bound, eit her by great Rains, or from any other Caufe, you fhould dig and loofen it again, obferving always to do it in dry Weather, if in Winter or Springs but in Summer it d be done ina moift Seafon, at fhould be principally After |