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Page 87 - ... necessity of lessening the number of branches at the time of transplanting or soon after, yet they ought to be lessened in such a manner that those left on, and such as proceed from them, may extend themselves in the least time, so as to fill the space of wall assigned them, and that all the trees planted may, one with another, cover the whole wall, without having their branches too near each other, but that each may receive equal advantages from the sun, air and dews, the stronger being confined...
Page 95 - ... short cutting, are not so apt to bear. ' . " At the request of a certain gentleman, I shortened the branches of a peach tree on one side, according to the rules laid down by the best authors; but the other side I nailed to the wall, without shortening one branch, which is a method I have practised many years. The crop of fruit, as well as the number of young branches on that side of the tree where the shoots were not shortened, were so greatly preferable to those on the other, that the gentleman...
Page 93 - ... quantity out of the trees, because, as they say, the wood is too strong, or that there is too much left. " To cut in winter to gain wood, and to cut wood out in the summer, because, forsooth, it is too strong, is, I think, acting contrary to nature, and spending sap unnecessarily; for as the strength of the wood, and the growing of the branches too near each other, are entirely owing to the winter cutting, if the branches were then placed horizontally on the wall, there would be no occasion to...
Page 94 - ... management it may be reasonably expected that there will be an equal number of new branches on each side. " Now if no more shoots be produced by leaving the branches longer on one side than they are on the other which was cut short, how can one method weaken a tree more than another ? " The consequences indeed of leaving the branches long, will be this, they will have produced shoots at more proper distances, and cover the wall sooner with such as will earlier bear than those on the other side,...
Page 93 - ... nature, and spending sap unnecessarily; for as the strength of the wood, and the growing of the branches too near each other, are entirely owing to the winter cutting, if the branches were then placed horizontally on the wall, there would be no occasion to cut out too much in the summer, and the sap which the roots collected from the earth, would form new branches more fit for the production of fruit, and in such places where they might continue ; so by this method the trees will bear, and the...
Page 289 - ... They ought to be laid in a box or tub, with a covering of moift bran in the bottom, after that a fingle layer of fruit, but not to touch each other, and upon them lay a covering of bran an inch thick. After that, five or fix layers of each may be laid alternately, but there muft be a covering of bran at the top, and as it becomes drier, there muft be more water poured upon them ; by this means they will be in perfection in fourteen days time; but if they be lay'd thin upon dry ftraw, they will...
Page 90 - ... fruit which they bear is small, and some of the branches that formerly bore are covered with moss, or are dead, then, in order to enlarge the fruit, those mossy and dead branches should be taken out. " Thirdly, when trees put forth young branches out of some of the old ones which have...
Page 92 - ... proceed from those that are nailed horizontally. " There are many that prune all kinds of wall trees immoderately twice in the space of a year; first, in the winter they shorten all the branches, under the pretence of getting new wood to cover the walls; secondly, in summer they cut a large quantity out of the trees, because, as they say, the wood is too strong, or that there is too much left. " To cut in winter to gain wood, and to cut wood out in the summer, because, forsooth, it is too strong,...
Page 95 - ... have supported as much fruit as would have been equal to them in weight. " Besides, I have known by experience that trees, by this short cutting, are not so apt to bear. " At the request of a certain gentleman, I shortened the branches of a peach tree on one side according to the rules laid down by the best authors ; but the other side I nailed to the wall, without shortening...
Page 288 - ... them fometimes, and pick out thofe that are rotten. Walnuts may be preferved by the fame means that grapes are, after they are cleanfed from their hulks and rubbed quite dry, as alfo fmall nuts and filberts, faving that thefe two forts laft mentioned need nothing to pack them in but their own hufks.