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round the bloflbm, and there is no harbour 

 for vermin. The fpurs mould be kept a^ 

 clofe as poffible to the wall, and when they 

 are thinned, thofe the fartheft from the 

 wall mould be cut orF. 



THIS management will anfwer for all 

 kinds of cherries but the morella, which 

 requires a very different treatment : the 

 morella mould be planted and headed down 

 in the fame manner as the others ; what 

 branches it produces mould be trained re- 

 gtilarly on each fide at as great a diftance 

 as they will admit of, that others may be 

 trained in between them the following 

 fummer. There are no branches to be 

 ihortened, but as many laid in, as pro- 

 perly can be to the wall, at three and four 

 inches difiance ; which rriufr. be trained as 

 horizontal as poffible. 



IN the ipring, when they pum,'the bud 



next the bole of the tree mould be laid in 



for wood ; and at fix inches diftance, and 



continue -the fame over all the tree : they' 



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