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tion of this plaister, secured by a bandage of paper 

 or linen. 



When trees are much pruned, they are apt to throw 

 out numerous suckers from the boughs in the follow- 

 ing summer; these should be rubbed off when they 

 first appear, or they may easily be broken off while 

 young and brittle cutting is apt to increase their num- 

 ber. Trees differ much in their form, and require very 

 different treatment in pruning ; it may not be necessa- 

 ry in our warm climate to trim quite so close as in 

 England, but great care should be observed to take 

 off every limb which crosses another, or is likely so to 

 do at a future time : those who can conveniently do 

 it, will find a benefit from forming the heads of their 

 trees in the nursery, the year before they remove then! 

 when transplanted, they will thrive more rapidly 

 from not having been pruned at the time of removal, 

 which in some measure exhausts and weakens the 

 tree : I have been latterly in the habit of giving the 

 principal pruning to my orchards, after they have been 

 planted out about five or six years ; their growth, with 

 proper cultivation, is then so vigorous, as to permit any 

 natural defects in their forms to be corrected with safe- 

 ty, by free pruning, and forming their branches : the 

 peculiarity of growth which characterizes each kind 

 is then visible, and uniformity of shape may be more 

 easily attained, 



