SECT. XII. OF PRUNING. 1ST 



feet in length of a tawwall, or on a high one fomething 

 lefs. 



Mulberries are flill more rarely cultivated as wall- 

 fruit. 



Thefe trees require good room, as their mode of 

 bearing is moftly at the end of the trained moots,. 

 which are thcreiore not to be fhortened. Twenty or 

 twenty-five feet fhould be allowed them, and a new 

 planted tree is to be headed down as directed for pears K 

 &c. Train -regularly as many moots as maybe in 

 fummer, and at winter pruning, lay them about fix or 

 {even inches diilance. A fuccefhon of new wood 

 mud be always coming forward, and of courfe fome. 

 old taken out, for the fruit is produced chiefly on year 

 and two-year old wood; and as it comes on fpurs, and 

 alio fmall ihoots of the fame year, the leaving fhort 

 Hubs (of moderate wood) in pruning, fe.ems juftified» 

 though by fome condemned. 



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Cherries mould be found againfl walls in every good 

 garden; but plant young trees, not more than two, but 

 better if one year only irom budding. 



A. new planted cherry tree is belt to have but one 

 ftrong moot from the bud, and then cut down at fpring, 

 fo as to have two or three eyes on each fide, to lay in 

 well to the wall; but if older and fuller of wood, he?4 

 itidown as will be directed prefently, in the article, 

 Efpalier Pruning. . 



Cherry trees Ihould be trained at length, four or five 

 inches afunder. The fruit comes from fpurs all along 

 the moots, on one and two years old wood, which wiU 

 continue to bear.. In pruning have. an eye, however, 

 to fome fair moots for fucceffors to thofe that are 

 getting difeafed, or worn out. Some cut all fuper- 

 iluous fhoots clean away, and others leave a fpiink- 



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