8* OF PRUNING 



wood then being of a foft nature, it ha:r 

 a large pithy heart, and is liable to be 

 greatly injured by rain and froft, if it hap-- 

 pens foon after cutting. When peach-trees 

 are cut early, the days being long, and the, 

 fun of great force, the wounds are fbon 

 healed, and they are as fafe from froft as 

 if they had not been cut.- 



ALL trees pufh faft-at the extremities/ 

 and none more fo than peaches and necta- 

 rines ; it is the nature of them to grow in 

 winter, notwithstanding the feverity of 

 the cold frofty weather, in defiance of 

 which they make an early pufh. If they 

 are not pruned m the autumn, they can- 

 not be done with fafety before the begin- 

 ning of March, and then the frofts ar.e 

 often feverer than they are any time in 

 October. The extremities of the branches 

 which are GutofTin pruning, in hard win- 

 ters, by the end of February are iwelled 

 round ; this is wafting the fubftance of the 

 tree to no purpofe ; neither do the buds 



blow 

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