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Show RI open Air by degrees ; and then, if theyare planted out into a very rich Border, and in dry Weather duly water’d, they will grow to a very large Size, particularly the firft Sort, which I have feen upwards of ten Feet high in one Seafon ; and thefe Plants have produc’d a great Quantity of Flowers and Seeds: But if you intend to preferve them through the Winter, they muft never be plac’d in the full Ground, becaufe after their Roots have been widely extended, there will be no tranfplant- ing them with Safety ; therefore the beft Way is to fhift them into larger Pots from time to time as their Roots fhall require, placing them in the open Air during the Summer Seaton, in fome warm Situation, where they may remain until O¢ober, when they muft be remov’d into the Houfe with other Exotick Plants, obferving duly to water them in Winter, and let them have free Air in mild Weather, for they only require to be protected from Froft and cold Winds, fo that theywill endure the Winterin a common Green-houfé without any Addition of artificial Warmth. The firft four Sorts will perfect their Seeds the firft Seafon in this Climate, provided they are fown early in the Spring, but the fifth Sort will rarcly produce anytill the fecond Year ; fo thatthere is a Neceffity of preferving this through the Winter, otherwife it cannot be maintain’d in England. Thefe Plants do deferve a Place in every curious Garden for the fingular Beautyof their Leaves, (notwithftanding their Plowers are not very valuable) efpecially thofe Sorts which may be propagated every Year from Seeds, becaufe thofe Perfons who have no Green-honfe to place them into in Winter, may cultivate them as other annual Plants; amoneft which thefe being plac’d either in Pots or Borders, do afford an agreeable Variety: But it muft be obferv’d, as thefe are large growing Plants, never to place them too near other Plants oflefs Growth, becaufe thefe will overbear and deftroy them; and thofe which are planted in Pots fhould be allow’d Room for their Roots to expand, and muft be frequently water'd, otherwife they will not grow very large. Reid the Upright, then you may have a Line of whole Deals fix’d on the Top of the Wall to project their whole Breadth over the Trees, and made fo that the Top of the Gla Lights may fallin an Inch or two under them : There muft alfo be a Door fhap’d to the Profile of the Frame at each End, that it may be open’d at either of the Ends, according as the Wind blows. ‘The Frame beforemention’d thould be made fo, that when the firft Part has been forc’d , the Frame may be mov’d the next Year forwar d, and the fucceeding Year forward again; fo that the ‘Trees will be fore’d but everythird Year ; and having two Years to recove r themfelves, will continue ftrong for manyYears, Theie Trees fhould be well grown before they are fore’d, otherwife they will foon be deftroy’d, and the Fruit produc’d on grown Trees will be much fairer and better tafted than on frefh-planted Trees. The Fruit that may be planted in thefe Frames are, The Avant, the Albemarle, the Ann, the Early Newington and Brown Nutmeg Peaches. Mr. Fairchiid’s Early, the Llruge and New- ington Neétarines ; the Ma/culine Apricock ; the May Duke and May Cherry. As for Grapes ; thebite and Black Sweet water. Goofeberries ; the Dutch White, the Dutch Early Green, and the W t-Goofeberries, Currants ; the large Dutch W Dutch Red Currants. bite, the large It has been found by Experience, thatthe Trees will be injur’d, if the Heat be apply'd before November : And that the Time for applying the Heat for t ringing either Duke or May Cherries, is about the Middle orlatter End of that Month, and applying Heat at the fame time would dofor Apricocks ; fo that the Mafculine Apricock will, in February, be as large as Duke Cherries, and will be ripe by the Beginning of April, Cherries thus forc’d will not hold fo well as Apricocks, tho’ the former will laft, perhap s, for feven Years in good Plight ; but Apricocks will thrive and profper thus manyYears. It is verylikely that Mr. Eirchild’s Early Nettarines would ripen much about the fame RIPENING of FRUIT. time as the Ma/culine Apricock, if they were both fore’d at the fame time ; and the Brugnow Lhe Method of producing Early Fruits. Neétarine would follow that. As to the forA Wall fhould be ereéted ten Feet high, ward Sorts of Plums, they have been try’d, and in Length according to the Number of and do ripen about the latter End of April. Trees intended for three Years Forcing. This being done, a Border may be mark’d forGoofeberries would produce green Fruit fit Tarts in Fonuary and February, and ptoout about four Feet wide on the South-fide of bably would ripen about the End of March ot it, and fome Scantlings of Wood about four Inches thick, muft be faften’d to the Ground the Beginning of 4pri/ at the fartheft. Currants, which tend to fhoot forward, in a ftrait Line on the Outfide of the Border might, by the fame Hear that brings Cherries to reft the Glafs Lights upon ; which Lights are in February, be forc’d to produce ripe Fruit in to flope backwards to the Wall, to fhelter the April, if not fooner, Fruit as there fhall be Occafion. As for the Diftance of thefe Trees one from Bars about four Inches wide, cut out of another, it need not be fo great as is direct whole Deal, muft be plac'd ed between thefe for thofé planted in the open Air, becaufe they Glaffes, fo that the Lights may reft on them. will never thoot fo vigoroufly, therefore eight If you would ‘not have the flope fo much as they. will from Glafs-Lights or nine Feet will be {ufficient. this Fall from w The The higher Parts of the Wall being farni with Apricocks, Chervies, Neé and Plums, the lower {ma them may be fill’d up vy Lerries and Rofé ccording as the» Frofts fhall ‘have happen’d to have had-more or lefS Influen ce over the Buds,» this will happen fooner or later. If thefe’ Trees be cover’d with the Glaff it will contribute very muchto forwa As to the Pruning ofthef eS: The Time of doing it in the rames, muft Bloffoming ; for tho” their Bloffoms will not not be the {ame as in other Trees ; becaufe in be deftroy’d by the Frofts, yet the more the the common Cafe of Stone-Fruit againft Walls, Frofts come at them, they will both be the the Spring does not b till the End of drier, and more hardto open, ry; but in the ing Frames, the If the Weatherbe tolerably mild, the Trees begins in N Therefore they ought not to be hinder’d from the Benefit of the Showers till the Buds begin to ftir; but afterwards the Glaffes fhould be kept conftantly temper'd, as to fet the Trees a growing, over them till the Influence ofthe Sun is fomethe Frofts cannot comeat them, if the Glaffes thing confiderable. be fet up as foon as theyare prun’d But the Doors which are at each End of the As to the nailing of thefe Trees: Frame, fhould, in the mean time, be Every Branch that fhoots muft be laid as when the Wind does not blowtoo {et open, fha p, and clofe to the Wall can be; for the Fruit the Sun fhines any thing warm: And ifthis which touches Wall will be ripe a Month fooner than thofe that lie but two Inches fromit. Sometimes it happens that the Tops of fuch Trees have Blof{oms 4 Month orfix Weel before the Bott and fometimes one Branch has been ns, when there have ( Branches ofthe fame rr’d till the Fruit of the oms has been almoft ripe, notwith- which the Trec done very well: Andit no uncommon Thing for fuch Trees tohave Fruit ripening upon them for nearthree Months continually, As for Goofi ; fuch Plants as are t hefe Frames, fhouldbe fuch as have pread ; and when as many Shoots have been iail’d to the Wall as may conveniently be done, others may be left at a Diftance fromit, to fucceed them in ripening. If they are taken up in the Sz er, and properly manag’d, theywill bear Fruit the firft Year, as well as if they had not been tranf planted. The nts maybe order’dafter the Manner, and alfo the Rofes: And the beft Kind of Rofe for this Purpofe, is the Monthly Rofe, which ought always to be topped about the End of Fuly or the nning of Auguft fo make them put out a good Number Flower-buds, As to the laying the Dung to the Wal The Dung, be it be laid to the Back the Wall, fhould be thrown up in an | and lie for fome Days, that it may yield an Heat every where 1 be conftant. it has been thus prepar’d, it fhould our Feet thick at the Bafe, and g, till it has but two Feet wide at the t fhould be Jai of the Top of the W does not happen in the Space of a Fortnight, then the Doors at both Ends maybe open’d, and Mats of Bafs or Canvaf$ fhould be hung up over the Door-ways to correét the W inds, and give the Air leave to circulate in the Frames. As for Cherries; about three Changes of Dung will be fufficient to bring them to a due Ripenefs in February, fappofing each Parcel remains a Monthat the Back of the Wall. But as for Apricosks, G; > Nettarines, Peaches and Plums, if A proves cold, the forcing Heat muft be continu’dtill May is fettled ; but fome ofthe Glaffes fhould be open’d in the Morning, in March and April, when the Wind is ftill, and the Sun warm ; and they fhould be permitted to receive the Showers that fall, while the Fr rowing ; but while theyare in Bloffom no Rain fhould come near them, becaufe if there fhould be any Moifture lodg’d in the Bofomofthe Flowers, and the Sunfhould fhine hot thro” the Glafies, it would be apt to deftroy them. The Dung that co 1 thefe Frames having loft its Hea y be laid in Heaps to mel rot for the {tubborn Grounds. ight to be obferv’din planting Fi ; Fruit swhi which come emielyes, b be prejudicial to the forward wit to give them any more H 7 have done bearing ; whenat the fet amongft them may require more Heat, and to be continuedlo fome of th requiring an artificial Hear til] A There may alfo a Rowor Strawh be p this Fr ne > you may ripe by March. the E: c& will be or Beginning of As for the Vines, they. may probably be three Feet in fix Weeks time; and then fome brought to Bloffom, and have ripe Grapes in freth Dung mutt be laid, becanfe the firft H will not do much more than {well the Buds of t there planted a the Trees, or begin nils, to bring t Col or at the moft will but Colour ofthe Bloffom-Buds barely thew the ROOT |
