Pomona: or, the fruit-garden illustrated. [electronic resource] : Containing Sure Methods for Improving all the Best Kinds of fruits Now extant in England. calculated from Great Variety of experiments made in all Kinds of soild and aspects. wherein The Manner of Raising Young Stocks, Grasting, Inoculating, Planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated. With directions, I. For Prunino; wherein the Reasons, Manner, and Consequences thereof are clearly demonstrated. II. For Nailing ; wherein the true Distances that the Branches of Fruit-Trees are to be laid upon the Walls, are set forth : Being a most important and useful Discovery, unknown to Gardeners in general. III. For Preserving their Blossoms from the Injuries of Frosts, &c. IV. Rules for the Things of their young-set Fruits, so as to leave no more than Nature can strongly support, and repen in the greatest Perfection. V. For Prescrving and Ordering Young Fruits, from their Blossom to the Time of their Maturity. VI. to give them their true Taste and Colour when fully grown, Season of Ripening, Manner of Gathering, Preserving, &c. Likewise several Practical observations on the Imbibing Power and Porspirations of Fruit-Trees; the severa Effects of Heat and Moisture tending to the Growth and Maturity of Fruits. To which is added, a Curious Account of the Most Valuable Cyder-Fruits of Devonshire The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several Fruits, Curiously Engraven on Seventy-Nine large Folio Plates. By Batty Langley of Twickenham.