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allowed to grow nearer on trees that bear 

 fmall fruit than four inches x and on trees 

 that hear large fruit fix cr feyen inches. 

 There will alfo much young wood fprout 

 all over the pld wood of the tree, which 

 fhould be rubbed oft when young, where 

 fpurs are not wanted ; where they are. 

 they fhould be allowed to grow until 

 the wood is hardened, then bjroke off fix 



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inches from the branch it grows, on, anct 

 in the pruning feafon cut to one eye. 



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THE next pruning feafon the fame me- 

 thod muft be followed in every refpecl as 

 in the former, until the wall is covered. 



THE horizontal branches, in fmall pears 

 {hould be fix inches difbnt from one ano- 

 ther, and in large fruit eight or nine. 

 When the tree is formed and the ip.urs at 

 proper diilances, there will a great many 

 young fhoots fprout out of each bunch of 

 the ip.urs, and if allowed to grow large, 

 will ipoilthem : they fhculd be all pulled 

 ,vh on young but one hoot ? which mufl 



remain : 



