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lobes •, producing the flowers and fruit 

 always on the young wood of the former 

 year's growth, arifing in Spring, immedi- 

 ately from the eyes of the (hoots, like 

 fmall buds, each forming a fort of gene- 

 ral cup to numerous fmall florets or 

 flowers within, gradually encreafing in 

 fize till Auguft and September, then 

 ripening with a fofc, tender, delicious 

 pulp 5 and as the trees bear only on the 

 young year old fhoots, a general annual 

 fupply thereof muft be retained in every 

 parr, as fucceflion bearers, and which, as 

 they be2r moftly towards the upper 

 parts, mull: not be fnortened. 



The fruit buds arife, both in dip 

 Spring, on the former year's wood, and 

 jn Summer and Autumn on fhoots of 



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