276 THE FRUIT GARDENER. [fi. 2* 



it into a bearing ftate in the courfe of a 

 feafon or two. 



In pruning, be careful to make clean 

 and handfome wounds at all times ; ufing 

 the knife chiefly ; but the faw in amputa- 

 ting ftrong branches, and dreffing the 

 edges of the wound, thus made, fmooth 

 with the knife. In lopping branches from 

 the ftem, or twigs from -larger branches, 

 cut always in to the level of the bark, 

 leaving no flub. And, if from the pofi- 

 tion of the wound on large branches, or 

 on the ftem, particularly in aged trees, 

 there is reafon to doubt its healing eafily, 

 let it be laid over with a little tar ; which 

 afterwards keep in a found ftate, in order 

 to exclude moifture till the wound is 

 quite healed, and fkinned over with frefli 

 barfc. 



It frequently happens, that after much 

 pains has been taken in rearing and train- 

 ing a tree, it turns out to be of a very dif- 

 ferent kind from that for which it was 

 planted ; which is a great difappointment, 

 as perhaps it occupies a fpace upon a 

 much better afpeft than it deferves ; and 

 were it to be removed, would occafion an 



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