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rial how near they lie to, or even if they 

 cover or crois the old ones. - Thefe trees 

 are apt to grow to the extremities, and 

 confequently run into naked branches in 

 the centre ; a fucceffion of young flioots 

 from the bottom fhould therefore be con- 

 itantly encouraged. 



When the trees arrive at a bearing ftate, 

 \vhich they generally will do in the courfc 

 of four or five years, and as they (how the 

 fruit which is to be ripened next year on 

 the (hoots of this ; let fuch as are not 

 wanted for furnifhing any part of the tree 

 with wood, be Hopped about the middle or 

 end of July : which will caufe them to 

 mew and fet their fruit fooner, and there- 

 Jby be better eftabliihed before the Winter 

 frofts fet in, than when the fhoots are fuf- 

 fered to grow late in the feafon. On the 

 open wall, this is of beneficial effed:, 

 though unnecefTary in a forcing-houfe. 



V. PEARS. Thefe, of all others, do 

 Left, and make the handfomefl trees, in 

 the horizontal manner ; but they will fill 

 their fpaces fooner by a third, if not one 

 half of the time, by fan-training, which is 



certainly 



