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nearly the fame as directed for Currants, 

 obferving alfo as below. 



Keep the bdfnes always to one (ingle 

 ftem below, by clearing off all lower 

 (hoots, and flickers from the root. The 

 head fhould be kept open, and regular, 

 and the general branches continued about 

 fix or feven inches afunder, to have large 

 fruit ; and fhortened but little, or hardly 

 at all, in pruning, except very long ram- 

 blers, or low (hagglers ; retain the 

 fame branches as bearers, as long as they 

 fupport a good bearing ftate, becaufe 

 thofe of feveral years old bear abundantly 

 on fpurs j but according as they gradu- 

 ally become very old or worn out, and 

 produce but fmall fruit, fhould retain 

 ftrong young moots, advancing below, 

 to fupply their place, according to the 

 following rules of general pruning. 



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