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of the tree will be in danger of being 

 torn in endeavouring to get them off, and 

 there mould none of them be cut, for if 

 they are they will the next year pufli out 

 a whole bufh of fp routs at every amputa- 

 tion, and fometimes in the fame autumn, 

 which will occafion double labour, as 

 they muft be pulled off; betides, they 

 grow to a bunch or nob on the bole, and 

 caufe a blemifh in the tree. 



IN any of the winter months the whole 

 plantation muft be pruned ; and all the 

 largeft of thofe fmall branches that were 

 left when planted be cut off quite clofe to 

 the bole ; but care muft be taken not to 

 leave the frem too naked, that is, there 

 mould be fmall branches left regular all 

 over it. Attention mould likewife be ob- 

 ferved to leave no branch near the top of 

 the tree equal to the main moot : this 

 will prevent its being forky. 



IN July following, the young moots 

 mufb be pulled again, and if there is any 



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