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 irregular wood, and to train in occafi- 

 onal new fupplies where wanted. 



In the infant Mate of efpalier trees, 

 our principal care is to procure a good 

 fpread of lower branches to furnifh a 

 proper bafis, as it were, to fupply others 

 regulary upward, to cover the efpalier 

 equally from bottom to top, with 

 bearers j which depends wholly on the 

 firft and fecond year's pruning, by 

 fhortening the firft fhoots more or lefs, 

 as directed in the nurfery ; fo that fup- 

 pofing the new planted trees are only 

 one year old from grafting, and their 

 firft fhoots or head entire, not being 

 fhortened in the nurfery as directed, it 

 muit now be done in the Spring, cut- 

 ting each fhoot to five or fix inches, 



as 



