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ready to bloffom, that you may beat the 

 greater Certainty in preferving thofe Branches 

 which may be moft likely to bear Fruit, and 

 then to fliorten them as they require. 



The Fruit - bearing Branches are eafily 

 knoum by their fwelling Buds ^ thefe are to 

 be reduc'd to five or fix Inches in Length, 

 but the lafl: l^ear's Shoots may be left ten or 

 twelve Inches long: And in about three Years 

 Space the Wood muft be taken away entirely 

 at feveral Prunings^ but in the mean Time 

 you are to take Care to furnifli your Wall with 

 other Wood. You muft always cut out what 

 great Wood can conveniently be fpar'd, and 

 take away all dead and yellow fickly Bran- 

 ches. 



You are not to commence your Pruning of 

 the Peach 'till the hard Frofts are over. 

 When you have reduc'd your Tree to Beauty 

 and Order, you have little to do, but thin- 

 ing your Fruit 'till Micifummev^ when the 

 Shoots are fo be fliorten'd and fatten d to the 

 Wall 1 and 'tis no Matter in what Order you 

 perform this Operation, (fo as you give the 

 Fruit all the Advantage of the Sun you can) 

 bccaufe it muft be altcr'd the next Pruning. 



If your Peach Trees make too much Hafte 

 to bear, it is a certain Sign of Infirmity, and 

 they muft be managed accordingly, by Pruning 

 the Branches (liqrt, and plucking off all or 

 moft of the BlolToms or Fruity and this is 

 . iefs difiicult a great deal than when a Peach 

 i3 over vigorQus 5 for then Nature is apt to 



