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Planting and Culture. 



When raifed to a due fize, plant the 

 flandards any where in the garden, or- 

 chard, fhrubbery, &c. twenty feet afun- 

 der, and fuffer them generally to grow 

 in their own way, only pruning occafion- 

 ally any very irregular^ rambling, and 

 draggling growths, as advifed for other 

 llandard fruit trees. 



Plant the efpaliers fifteen or eighteen 

 feet afunder, training the branches hori- 

 zontally, five or fix inches diftance, moft- 

 ly at full length, to their allotted extent, 

 except in their firft training; when, if re- 

 quired, may prune fhort occafional young 

 flioots in Spring or Summer, to cncreafe 

 the number of branches to cover the ef- 

 palier regularly y obferving always to 



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