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knife. The borders mufl be recruited the 

 third year after planting ; for borders 

 -where pean-trees grow are in general made 

 too free with in growing vegetables, there- 

 fore they mirfl be repaired in proportion 

 as the earth is exhaufled. The firft com~ 

 pofition that was laid on them mould be 

 the fame as that made to prepare them for 

 planting ; but as a few years working and 

 growing garden fluff may greatly alter 

 their nature, they fhould be nourifhed 

 with fuch a competition as will keep them 

 as near as poflible to a good loam, and not 

 too ftifT. 



Management and Pruning of Plums. 



THE tree fhould be of one year's growth 

 from the graft, for if older they do not 

 produce good wood when headed down, 

 but luxuriant fjioots and long rambling 

 branches. 



THE fpring after planting, they mufl 

 be headed down to fix eyes, as mofl kind 



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