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growth, to retrench all after-moots, 

 reform occafional irregularities, and 

 to train in the referred (hoots as they 

 advance in length. 



It is highly advifable to begin the 

 Summer pruning, &c. of efpalier trees, 

 early in the feafon : as the work is then 

 not only more eafily performed with 

 expedition and truth, either by rub- 

 bing off the buds when quite young, 

 or by pruning with the knife the more 

 advanced (hoots, but ic alfo contri- 

 butes exceedingly to the profperity of 

 the fruit in general, as well as to the 

 beauty and regularity of the trees du- 

 ring their Summer's growth. 



TJ>e Winter pruning may be per- 

 formed 



