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feet high for full ftandards, and four or 

 five for half-ftandards, branching out at 

 thefe refpe&ive heights, all around into 

 regular heads, planted at twenty or 

 thirty feet diftance, and fuffered to ex- 

 tend every way nearly according to their 

 natural order of growth ; though, for va- 

 riety fometimes a few trees are cultivated, 

 as dwarfs, for walls and efpaliers, and 

 trained in the order of wall trees, &c. 

 nearly as directed for Peaches and Nec- 

 tarines, and in which they often furnifh 

 larger and forwarder fruit than on 

 ftandards* 



Obferving, that as this tree bears 

 principally on the young wood, we, in 

 performing the occafional primings, mult 

 carefully prefer.ve a general fupply ot 

 each year's ihoots as fuccemon bearers ; 

 as in peaches, 6cc "The 



