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moil fkilful and careful perfon, if not very 

 much damaged, they will pufh frefh roots 

 and ripen their fruit, although it will not 

 be fb large ; neither will the flavour be 

 high, the fuckers will be very fmall, and 

 not fit to produce fruit at a year old. For 

 fear of an accident of that kind, it will be 

 proper to have fome crowns every year 

 coming on of a year old, to prevent your 

 being deflitute of good fruit. 



WHEN a misfortune happens to occaiipn 

 the flickers to be very fmall, they will alfo 

 be very late, and mould remain on, the old 

 plants as long as it can be done with con- 

 venience, as they will grow much fairer 

 on the mother-plant than they will .after 

 taken oft", betides the advantage of their 

 items being hardened. They mould be 

 planted in the bark when taken off, as be- 

 fore directed, and managed in all refpec1:s 

 as the crowns that are kept till they are 

 three years old. 



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