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blighting, I now proceed to the manage- 

 ment and pruning of them, 



The Management and pruning of Aprkdf 

 frees. 



THE fpring after planting apricot-trees, 

 as loon as the buds begin to pufh, head 

 them down, if the trees are healthy and 

 /Irong, to fix eyes, if weak, four will be 

 enough, 



RUB off the fore-right moots that are 

 produced on the flock, and nail the fide 

 branches 'as foon as they will reach the 

 wall. 



IF the tree \vs left with fix eyes, there 

 will be at leafl two fhoots of a fide ; if to 

 four eyes, two branches of a fide, which 

 fhould be nailed horizontally at five or fix 

 inches diftance. The latter end of Octo- 

 ber they mould be pruned, if they have 

 made vigorous moots, to eight, nine, and 

 ten inches; if weak, three, four, and five, 

 do : they mould be nailed directly. 



