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fore directed : the next fummer it will 

 bloiTom and bear 'fruit : there mould be as 

 many proper branches laid in on each 

 fide as can be done at a regular di fin nee ; 

 all fore-right and irregular (hoots rubbed 

 off as they appear, and none allowed to 

 grow but thofe deilgned for wood. Next 

 autumn the middle branches livdjft be 

 Shortened to produce more horizontal 

 ones : this (ha^ic be repeated every au^ 



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tumn and in the fpring, as many branches 

 laid in as can be proper ly got, until the 

 fpace allotted for the tree ib full ; but 

 pone of the branches trained horizontal 

 (hould be flopped until they have run as, 

 far as intended, . 



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THE diftanceof the horizontal branches; 

 in fmali plums mould be from three to. 

 four inches, and the fpurs on the branches 

 from t\va to three inches, On the larger 

 forts the diftance of the horizontal 

 branches mould be from four to fix; 

 inches, and the fpurs from three to fix. 

 The fpurs mint not be allowed to grow 



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