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tertainly a great objedt. On efpaliers, 

 however, horizontal training is moft advi- 

 fable ; and alfo on very low walls. 



As I have been pretty explicit on both 

 thefe methods in the firft head of this fec- 

 tion, it will be unneceifary to repeat them 

 here. I fhall only, therefore, briefly re- 

 mark any particular difference to be obfer- 

 ved in the training of apples and Pears in 

 either manner. 



Moft kinds of Pears being apt to make 

 longer fpurs than apples, the branches are 

 to be allowed two or three inches more of 

 room between them refpedively : and as 

 their fpurs are alfo apt to grow more clu- 

 ftered than apples in general, thefe are to 

 be more carefully thinned in aged trees , 

 obferving to retain fuch parts of them as 

 lie neareft to the wall, in that operation. 



As Pears are not fo apt to fhow fruit- 

 fpurs on the bottom-part of the breaft- 

 Ihoots fhortened in Summer, as apples, 

 thefe are generally to be cut clean off in 

 the Winter pruning ; thus giving the more 

 room to the real fpurs, and preventing 

 a profulion of ufelefs and fuperfluous fhoots 

 from rifing the following feafon. This 



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