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ing on the felected young {hoots, which r 

 as you go on, muft be moftly fhorten- 

 ed, more or lefs, for the reafons before 

 explained, and as below, 



For example, the fmaller Ihoots cut 

 to fix, eight, or ten inches in length, 

 the middling growths to a foot or fifteen 

 inches, and the ftrongeft fhoots to half 

 a yard or two feet long •, for the ftrong 

 or vigorous fnoots muft not be cut fhort, 

 which would force out luxurious barren 

 wood -, being careful in fhortening not 

 to cut below all the fruit- buds, diflin- 

 guifhed by their turgid, fwelling ap- 

 pearance, from the wood buds, which 

 are long and thin, cutting generally ei^ 

 ther juft above a wood bud aforefaid, cr 

 to a double fruit bud, on twin bloflbm, 



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