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retained at four or five inches diflance, 

 fhould generally in this, the Winter 

 pruning, be moftly fhortened, more or 

 lefs ; the fmaller moots to, eight or ten 

 inches, and the ftronger ones to twelve, 

 fifteen or eighteen inches, or two feet 

 long, or more, according to their 

 ftrength, to promote their producing 

 more certainly a requifite fupply of 

 lateral moots next Summer from the 

 lower eyes, properly fituated to train 

 in for fucceffion bearers, as in the 

 Apricot, Peach, and other trees, that 

 bear principally on the young wood, 

 ( See peaches^ &c. ) 



Then, as foon as ever a tree is thus 

 Winter-pruned, let the whole be di- 

 rectly nailed regularly to the wall, or 

 D tied 



