CH. I.] WALL-TREES, 265 



mail be headed down to eighteen or twen- 

 ty inches, year by year, till the hori- 

 zontal branches arrive at the top of the 

 rail, &c. But this muft be underftood of 

 apples in general, and that too when they 

 are in a moderate ft ate of health and vi- 

 gour } for fome kinds, and indeed any, 

 when in a luxuriant ftate, will generally 

 produce three pairs of fhoots on the ftem ; 

 which, in that cafe, muft be left from 

 thirty to thirty-fix inches in length. 



Great care mould be taken, when lay- 

 ing in the horizontal fhoots w r hich ifliie 

 from the ftem, th^t they be not fplit away 

 in the operation, I generally lay them in 

 the manner they will beft lie, till they are 

 fufficiently hardened to bear being laid in, 

 in their proper poiition; and I likewife 

 generally lay in or referve all the fhoots 

 that ifTue from the ftem, till that time, 

 (whether needful or not),*in order to guard 

 againft accidents. 



\ 

 II. APRICOTS. As thefe trees bear both 



on fpurs and the young fhoots of laft year, 

 fan-training is certainly to be preferred. 

 Therefore, after planting, let them be headr 



ed 



