262 THE FRUIT GARDENER. [fi. W 



Winter pruning : but if they pufh a fecond 

 time in the courfe of the Summer, they 

 are, in that cafe, to be rubbed off as they 

 appear. 



Continue the undermoft flioot on each 

 fide in the fame horizontal direction, which 

 is to be invariably done till the trees meet 

 each other ; and lay in the reft at the di- 

 ftance of twelve inches on a medium. And, 

 in the Winter pruning, ftiorten the ftrongeft 

 and fartheft extended (hoots only a few inches 

 each, and lay the others in at full length ; 

 unlefs it is neceflary to fhorten fome of 

 them a little, for the purpofe of making 

 flioots to fill any thin part. 



This is forthwith to be done in the Win- 

 ter prunings, never fhortening for any pur- 

 pofe but that of filling the wall regularly ; 

 arid the medium diftance at which the 

 branches are tq be placed from each other, 

 is nine inches in the fmall, and twelve in 

 the large growing kinds. At this time, 

 alfo, are the fuperfluous fhoots, that were 

 produced and Ihortened in Summer, to be 

 cut neatly off; unlefs there be fruit-fpurs 

 formed, or forming on their under parts, 



which 



