THE . FRUIT GARDENER. [fi. 2,, 



When the young flioots are of fufficient 

 length, train that from the extremity of 

 the principal Item or leader in an upright, 

 and the two immediately below it, in a hori- 

 zontal direction, right and left, and paraL- 

 lel to the two undermoft branches of laft 

 year ; which, as the item was headed down 

 to nine inches, will alfo lie at or about the 

 lame diftaijce refpe&ively. Produce the 

 young fliqots from the extremities of laft 

 year's branches, in the fame diredion \ and 

 pinch off all the others, both on thefe and 

 the ftem, as dired-ed for fan training. 



As the horizontal moots are never to be 

 ftiortened unlefs their extremities are brui- 

 fed by accident or. hurt by the froft ; and 

 as all fuperfluous and lateral fh.opts fliould 

 be treated in manner as directed abo^e-j it 

 may be unneceflary to fay more of thefe. 

 J ihall therefore confine my obfervations 

 to the ftem or leaden 



As the branches are to. be produced from 

 the ftem, and laid in (if poilible) at the 

 diftance of nine inches on a medium ; and 

 as, in mofl kinds, more than two pairs can- 

 not be produced each feafon without run- 

 ning the rifk of irregularity 5 the ftem 



