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bottom to top at regular distances, and, at the hud, or lateral shoot, or lower branch, which 

 same time, some proportional part of the most should be trimmed entire. 



naked old wood, and of the two preceding years In this pruning, as in the summer drsssing, 

 pa-t bearers, be pruned out to make proper room it is of importance to have a strict eye to the 

 for this requisite voung successional supply of lower parts of wall-trees, &rc, to see if there is 

 future bearers in 'the following summer, to be any present vacancy or any that apparently will 

 now retained in a general manner, both laterally, soon happen ; in which cases, it any good shoot 

 and as terminals to the general patent branches, is situated contiguous, it should be trained m 

 which should be primed accordingly ; and mostly either at full length, or shortened to a tew eyes 

 all the said supply of the present retained shoots, to force out two or more shoots if they shall 

 except the fig, must be more or less shortened seem necessary ; for precaution should ever be 

 according to their situation and strength, to en- observed in taking care to have betimes a suf- 

 courage their furnishing more readily a proper ficient stock of young wood coming forward to 

 supply of shoots in spring and summer for the till up any casual vacancy, and substituting a 

 succeeding year's bearing, as noticed before, new set of branches in place of such as are 

 leaving the strongest shoots always the longest, either decayed or stand in need of retrenchment, 

 as is more fully, explained under each of their In wall-trees and espaliers there are some- 

 respective genera,', but as the figs always bear times many large disagreeable barren spurs, con- 

 tow ards the end of the shoots they must not be sisting both of old worn-out fruit spurs, and ot 

 shortened. clusters of stumps of shortened shoots project- 



With respect to the apples, pears, plums, ing considerably from the branches, occasioned 

 cherries, &c, as they continue to bear on the by unskilful pruning when retrenching the su- 

 same branches of from two or three to many perabundant and irregular shoots, which, m- 

 years standing, the said bearers must be conti- stead of being cut out close, ate stumped oft to 

 iiucd accordingly ; and the trees only require an an inch or two long, and in the course of a tew 

 occasional supply of young wood, according as years, form numerous barren stumps, and very 



anv of the branches become defective, or unfit 

 for bearing, and want removing; which should 

 now be. cut out as may seem necessary, training 

 in here and there in proper places some good re- 

 gular young shoots towards the lower part, and 



ittle fruit, the trees appearing like a stumped 

 hedge. In this season of pruning, (in this case) 

 it is proper to reform them as well as possible by 

 cutting all the most disagreeable stumps clean 

 out close to the branches, leaving these at full 



..here it may seem necessary, to be coming gra- length, especially in apples, pears, Sec, and re- 

 dually forward to a bearing 'state, to be ready to serving an occasional supply of young wood in 

 replace worn-out and other useless branches', to different parts : thus in two or three years such 

 be cut out, as they may occur : and of the trees may be reduced to a regular figure and a 

 young wood, selecting what may appear neces- proper state of bearing. 



sary of the best well-placed shoots, and the su- It is observed that bad pruning ruins many a 

 perabundance, or those not wanted for that good tree, as is observable in numerous gardens, 

 purpose, together with all irregular-placed where the wall-trees and espaliers appear as just 

 shoots, rank luxuriant;, and other ineffectual described, pruned every year, yet never pro- 

 growths, should be now cut clean out, close to ducing any tolerable crop of fruit, 

 whence they originate, not leaving anv spur or Severe injudicious pruning in strong wood is 

 stump, as every one would push out several greatly prejudicial to the health of some sorts of 

 strong unnecessary shoots the next spring, to stone-fruit-trees, by causing them to gum and 

 the prejudice of the trees and fruit: particular soon decay. Plums and cherries, in particular, 

 regard "should be paid to preserve the shoots at are often greatly damaged by a too severe disci- 

 the termination of all the already trained branch- pline of the knife, these being very liable to 

 es entire, but not more than one to terminate gum by large amputations : it is therefore of im- 

 each branch; preserving also carefully all the portance to attend to these trees well in the sum- 

 proper fruit-spurs, taking care that the supply mer-pruning, to retrench all the superfluous and 

 of young wood he occasionally reserved, and the irregular shoots betimes in the summer while 

 branches in general of these trees be trained in quite young, and pinch others occasionally 

 at full length, and continued so in future, as w here wood is wanted to fill vacancies, so as to 

 far as the limited space will admit: and accord- require but little pruning out of large wood in 

 ing as any extend above the wall or espalier or winter. 



any where beyond their proper limits, they be A general nailing, &c, must every year be 

 pruned down'with discretion to some convenient performed, according as the pruning advances, 



