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{lamented -with large lanceolate leaves; 

 and produces its flowers and fruit fingly, 

 from the fides of the two or three, and 

 many year old branches, often upon fhort 

 fpurs •, the fame branches continue 

 bearing many years, and mould gene- 

 rally be permitted to run without fhort- 

 ening, except reducing cafual ilrag- 

 glers, &c. 



This tree certainly merits admittance 

 in every collection, for the fmgularity 

 and variety of its fruit ; trained prin- 

 cipally asftandards and halfflandards, in 

 the garden and orchard, or in any out 

 grounds, for they will fucceed anywhere; 

 and fome alfo, occafionally, as Efpaliers, 

 in affemblage with quinces, apples, &c. 

 managed as for apples and pears. 



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