FRUIT-TREES. 



remain ; for if they are all taken off, it 

 will caufe feveral of thofe that are forming 

 into buds to moot into wood ; this moot 

 may be fhortened when the wood is hard- 

 ened (for after that time no more wood 

 will moot) and taken off clofe in the prim-, 

 ing feafon, 



IF care is not taken the fpurs of pears 

 will grow large and a great way from the 

 wall ; they mould be thinned to two 

 inches diftance, and every year fome of 

 the longeft cut clean off. It would add 

 greatly to the beauty of the fruit to thin 

 them 5 they would alfo be better flavour- 

 ed ; but this muft be performed after a 

 very different manner from the method 

 ufed in thinning ftone fruit. 



PEAP>S drop very much after they are as 

 large as peafe, and there is no knowing 

 thofe that will from thofe that will not, 

 until they begin to mine, which is a cer- 

 tain fign they will grow : they may be 

 Chinned by cutting the flalk with a fharp 



knife. 



