40 OF- PRUNING 



THIS method is very prejudicial to the 

 trees round the quarters, which feldom 

 have above four feet to fpread their roots, 

 before they ftrike into the rubbifh. f his 

 is one caufe of their being fhort-liv'd, and 

 producing fo indifferent fruit after the 

 fourth or fifth year. 



IT is a general complaint that all direc- 

 tions for pruning are fo prolix, that they 

 ate. difficult to be undcrftood, even by 

 thofe of experience in that branch. To 

 remedy thefe defects I mall ufe my ut- 

 moft endeavours to render this treatife 



as plain and eafy as poffible. 



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THERE are many things materially 

 neceffary to be confidered betides pruning, 

 in order to. have healthful trees, without 

 which it is impoilible to have good fla- 

 voured fruit. 



THERE are gardens that produce fine 

 fruit of a high flavour, and others con- 

 tiguous to them, whofe fruit are not 

 much fuperior to cra^bs in relifh, although 



managed 



