( 5' ) 

 fput but the proper fruit fpuFS, naturally 

 produced j 



For, in retrenching the fuperfluous 

 and bad wood, we mould alwayscut quite 

 clofe, leaving no flump, as is too com- 

 monly pra&ifed, whereby, they (hooting 

 out at every remaining eye next Sum- 

 mer, crowd the tree with innumerable 

 ufelefs branches, occafioning great 

 trouble to retrench them, which, by 

 unfkilful pruners, are (lumped off again 

 to an inch or two long, continuing 

 the fame practice from year to year, 

 forming, at laft, thofe large clufters of 

 unfightly ufelefs fpurs we often fee in 

 ill-managed efpalier trees, 



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