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numerous, for they bear well, and continue tor years. 

 Some forts of peaches are alfo apt to put out fruit fpurs y 

 and muft be managed accordingly. 



If much alteration is to be made in a wall tree, it 

 will be neceiTary to un-nail a great part, it not the 

 whole tree, or a fide of it, at lead. When a tree has 

 filled its f pace, fomething of this fort mufl be done, and 

 the worft, oldefl, largeil, and molt unprofitable wood 

 taken out. If good fruitful wood be cut away to 

 reduce the tree, then that is to be referved which will 

 lay in ftraiteft and in the bell form, branching out the 

 near ell towards the flena. 



Thus having finifhed the directions for pruning 

 apricots, peaches, andnecJarines, a few moit obfervations 

 may be made, and fomething faid concerning the 

 management of thofe wall trees, in order to obtain good 

 fruit. 



After trees have been pruned, it will be proper to 

 look them over, to fee what can be amende J, as they 

 will hardly be done perfectly at fir ft; this bufinefs may 

 be let alone till bloffoming time, and then fome judicious 

 alterations may perhaps be made, (with care) as taking 

 out fome weak, or other lfioois, that prove barren, and 

 may be fpared, or cutting fome down to the knit-fruit, 

 both to benefit that, and make room for the new wood : 

 April will be the time for this. 



The primer's bufinefs is not limply in providing a 

 prefent, or a next year's crop of fruit, but to manage 

 liis trees fo as to lay a foundation for years to come : 

 He is to anticipate confequences, and provide tor the 

 future. 



Particular as the directions here given tor pruning 

 have been, they cannot have comprehended every 

 pofible cafe, but good fenfe and experience will readily 

 fupply what may be wanting, if the inilrucfions afforded 

 are underftood. 



Thofe who hire a workman to perform their pruning, 

 fhould have three fummcr operations befides the winter; 



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