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72 THE FRUIT GARDENER. [j8. 2* 



The fpurs in moft kinds are apt to grow 

 in clutters, and at a confiderable diftance 

 from the wall ; which (hould be thinned 

 in the manner as directed for the apricots, 

 as being nearly allied to them in their na- 

 ture. In- fan-training, the leading branches 

 for the production of fhoots to fill the 

 wall, will generally require to be fhorten- 

 ed about half their lengths, efpecially in 

 the fmall kinds ; and in the horizontal way, 

 more than two pairs in the fmall kinds, 

 and three in the others, will feldoin be 

 produced from the ftem annually } which, 

 of confequence, muft be fhortened to about 

 fixteen or eighteen inches in the one cafe, 

 and to about twenty-four or thirty in the 

 other. 



SECTION V. 



General Obfervations on Draining and Pruning, and oft 

 ^Thinning and Gathering the Fruit, &c* 



THE health and beauty of a wall- tree 

 depends more on the regular arrange- 

 ment of the young, tharf of the old wood < 

 and confequently, fhould be nea?tly and 



regularly 



