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moot, either naturally ; or if any branches 

 are advanced too long or draggling, 

 prune them down to a lower (hoot for 

 a leader; preferving all the fmall lateral 

 fruit fpurs •, and let the 00 afional 

 fupply of young moots be but mo- 

 derately mortened •, principally only long 

 rambling growths, and very bending 

 and ftraggling moots, juft reduced to a 

 little regularity, as obferved for the Cur- 

 rants. — The bufhes will thus moot mo- 

 derately, and produce larger and finer 

 fruit in proportion. 



For if Goofe berries are too generally 

 fhortened, it forces out numerous unne- 

 cessary, ufelefs moots, from all the lower 

 eyes, in Summer, forming the head a 

 perfect thicket, rendering the fruit fmall, 

 and occafioning much trouble of pruning 

 in Winter, Z 2 Never 



