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emit numerous fruit fpurs, and bear 

 abundantly in two or three years.— 



And, as to general pruning, &c. con- 

 tinue the fame branches as long as they 

 remain fruitful, pruned, as below, Sum- 

 mer and Winter. — Always commence 

 the Summer pruning in May or 

 June, to difplace all iVfelels growths 

 of the year, fuch as all fore-right grow- 

 ers, and all apparently fuperfluous of 

 unnecciTary (hoots, retaining a fupply 

 of well-placed lateral ones till Winter 

 pruning, training them in at full 

 length, — And in the Winter pruning, 

 examining the main branches or ge- 

 neral bearers, if any worn out, naked, 

 or dead ones appear, cut them out, 

 and retain young wood in their place; 

 at the fame time felecl occasional well- 

 placed 



