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This heading down may be practised on anv kind 

 of fruit-tree, with equal propriety; Imt in the treat- 

 ment of &Ume-J rml- y most care is necossar}^ with re- 

 gard to malving clean wounds, and in excluding air 

 &nd moisture from them aft-erM^-ards. Likewise cut- 

 ting, if possible, in the heading down of pcaclies, 

 &c. just abo\e elioots or buds of some promise, that 

 xcill sj)ring. 



Orchard, or other standard-trees tiiat are ^-cry 

 much stinted, and produce bad crops on account of 

 ill-treatment, ungenial soil, or the like, r\\^y\i(c head- 

 ed doini, as above directed for wall-trees, if any o- 

 ther mode of treatment be deei^^icd insufficient for 

 their recovery; at the same time impr-oving tiie soil 

 about them, as noticed beiovv. 



Some endeavour to recover stinted trees bv other 

 means, such as ripping the bark of the branches or 

 stem longitudinally, in different places, through to 

 the wood ; paring off a slice of the bark, &c. But 

 certainly there is no method equal to that of head- 

 ing, or partially heading them down, and then dres- 

 sing their roots, as now to be directe*:!. 



Of dressing and pruning the roots oj stinted Fruit- 



Trees. 

 Besides the above o])eration of heading d.-ov:\\ 

 stinted trees, for their recovery, it is necessary at 

 the same time to be at some trouble with tlieir 

 roots, and to improve or renovate the soil for their 

 encouragement afterwards. The ground should 

 therefore be opened ; their roots should be examin- 

 ed, and, if necessary, should be pruned of all parts 



