| Description | Headed: Orders to be given to the Gardener for the proper management and pruning of the new planted trees.
1. Towards the end of March or the beginning of April according to the forwardness or backwardness of the season, when the buds begin to shoot, head the trees to five eyes if the shoots are weak and to six, seven or eight according to their strength, observing to cut them sloping on the wall’s side and as near the top buds as may be, and also to rub off the foresight shoots.
2. Never fail to rub on a little of the following composition where you cut off the top of the shoots and don’t nail them to the wall until they are grown so long and strong as to be exposed to be broken by the wind.
Composition: Take two quarts of fresh cow-dung, one quart of lime rubbish of old building, and one quart of wood ashes, both sifted fine, add to it a handful of pit or river sand, mix the whole and work it together with a wooden beater until the stuff is very smooth like fine plaster used for the ceilings, and you will have it so by adding a sufficient quantity of soap-suds. |