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with its branches confiderably (hortened, 

 and a few feafons will make it as handfome 

 as it was at firft, and will not leave it a 

 large unhealthy trunk, with a thick bulliy 

 head, as the other method would do ; and 

 this prunmg may be performed, as I hint- 

 ed before,, in any of the fummer months, 

 immediately after you have ufed the leaves 

 for the filkworms, by which means you 

 will have reap'd the advantage of your 

 trees before you lefTen their branches, and 

 in fummer pruning, the bark fooner covers 

 the cut. 



It may be convenient in the foregoing 

 method of heading trees, to leave a few of 

 the fmaller branches and twigs upon the 

 larger arms, and the leaves of thefe fmaller 

 branches fhould have been fparcd and not 

 pull'd of, that they may ferve to draw 

 nourifhment, and keep the tree alive until 

 it has furnifh'd itfelf with young wood j 

 the cut alfo made in pruning would be the 

 better, if made clofe to fome fmaller 

 branch, that the bark might the fooner 

 cover it, and a little fmearing with tar 

 would be of advantage. 



Trees which are thus largely diibranched, 

 fliould not have their leaves puU'd for the 



filkworms 



