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cends then to the orchards ; which because it may 

 likewise be acceptable to our industrious planter, I 

 thus contract. 



6. Such as stand for fruits should be parted from 

 within two foot (or thereabouts) of the earth ; so 

 high, as to give liberty to dress the root, and no 

 higher ; because of exhausting the sap that should 

 seed his fruit : For the boal will be first, and best 

 served and fed, being next to the root, and of greatest 

 substance. These should be parted into two, three, 

 or four arms, as your graffs yield twigs ; and every 

 arm into two, or more branches, every branch into 

 his several cyons ; still spreading by equal degrees ; 

 so as his lowest spray be hardly without the reach of 

 a man's hand, and his highest not past two yards 

 higher : That no twig (especially in the middest) 

 touch his fellow ; let him spread as far as his list, 

 without any master-bough, or top, equally ; and 

 when any fall lower than his fellows (as they will 

 with weight of fruit) ease him the next spring of his 

 superfluous twigs, and he will rise : When any mount 

 above the rest, top him with a nip between your 

 fingers, or with a knife : Thus reform any cyon ; and 

 as your tree grows in stature and strength, so let him 

 rise with his tops, but slowly, and easily, especially in 

 the midst, and equally in breadth also ; following 

 him upward, with lopping his undergrowth, and 

 water-boughs, keeping the same distance of two yards, 

 not above three, in any wise, betwixt the lowest and 

 highest twigs. 



1. Thus shall you have handsome, clear, healthful, 

 great and lasting trees. 



2. Thus will they grow safe from winds, yet the 

 top spreading. 



