( 6p ) 



againft reed hedges, walls, or any clofe 

 fence, training the branches thereto, 

 being careful to retrench all fore-right 

 fhoots, and very rank wood, by rubbing 

 them off early in Summer, and train in 

 all the regular branches at full length 

 till Winter pruning, when they mull be 

 fhortened more or lefs, as directed in 

 their General Culture. 



For as Apricot trees bear principally 

 on the young wood, the fhortening 

 that of each year in Winter pruning 

 is necefTary, in order to force out a re- 

 gular fupply of fhoots more certainly 

 in the proper places, as fucceffion bear- 

 ers i for the fame fhoots both produce 

 fruit and fuccefllon wood at the fame 

 tiiiie, 



Planting 



