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wood of a year old, immediately from 

 the eyes of the fhoots, and often upon 

 fmall fpurs on the two or three years 

 wood; but moftly upon the young 

 fhoots of the former years growth, {o 

 that a general annual fupply of each 

 years fhoots mud be every where re- 

 ferved, as fucceflion bearing wood. 



They bloflfom early in Spring, Fe- 

 bruary and March ; and the fruit fets 

 in great abundance in favourable 

 Springs : often affording plentiful fup- 

 ply for thinning off for tarts in May, 

 &c- and the remainder ripens in July 

 and A-uguft. 



The trees are hardy enough •, but as 

 bloflbm and fet their fruit early 



