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Protecting the Bloffom, and thinning thf 

 Fruit. 



As Apricot trees blofibm early in the 

 Spring, and are often attacked by cut- 

 ting froiis, and cold blafts, greatly in- 

 juring the embryo fruit, if not occafion- 

 ally fheltered, it is therefore advifeable 

 to afford the btft kinds againft walls 

 fome protection at that period, either 

 of garden mats nailed up before the trees 

 occafionally, or cuttings of any kind of 

 leafy ever -green -flock between the 

 branches, to remain till the fruit is 

 fairly fet, or -pad danger. 



Sometimes Apricot trees fet more a- 

 bundant crops of fruit than they can 



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