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of plums are very free growers, and if 

 headed too clofe, they moot ftrong and are 

 apt to gum. From trees headed down to 

 fix eyes, four or five proper branches may 

 be expected ; if five, the odd one mufl be 

 nailed upright, and two on each fide 

 trained horizontal : if there are only four, 

 one on each fide mufr. be trained horizontal 

 aifo, and the other two inclining to the 

 right and left, keeping the middle of the 

 tree open ; all fore-right fhoots muft be 

 rubbed off as they grow, during the 

 fummer. Next autumn the ihoot that 

 was nailed upright muft be mortened to 

 fix eyes ; if very ftrong, which it often is, 

 it may be cut to ten eyes ; if the moots 

 were carefully rubbed off in fpring and 

 fummer, there woukl be little ufe for the 

 knife. 



THE tree that had a branch on each fide 

 ihortened to fix eyes, fhould have four pro- 

 per branches of a fide, three on each mufr. 

 be trained horizontal, the other two fhort- 

 ened to fix or eight eyes and nailed as be r 



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