FRUIT-TREES. 93 



into large clufters ; they mufl be thinned 

 a little every year, and thofe the furthefl 

 from the wall cut clean off. 



SOMETIMES great bunches grow where 

 the fpurs fprout, but that is feldom when 

 the tree is well managed ; when it hap- 

 pens they mould be cut clean off with a 

 chiflel, and fome of the mixture of dung 

 and earth ipread over the wound to pre- 

 vent its gumming ; there will much 

 young wood fprout from the place next 

 fpring, one moot of which mould be faved 

 to procure a new Ipur. If plum-trees 

 are managed as here direfted, they will 

 laft long in good order and bear a great 

 quantity of good fruit. 



tfhe Management and Pruning of Cherries. 



CHERRY-TREES for walls mould be 

 one year old from budding when planted ; 

 they produce much better, and make a 

 handfomer tree than, thofe that are older. 



THEY mould be planted in the au- 

 tumn : 



