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ries, fifteen or twenty feet diftance, and 

 arrange their branches horizontally, five 

 orfix inches afunder, at full length, while 

 the trees are young, only (hortening occa- 

 fional middle (hoots in Spring or Summer, 

 to force out a farther fupply of wood, to 

 furnifh the wall and efpalier more effectu- 

 ally; encourage alfo a fuccefllon of regular 

 fide (hoots, gradually advancing in every 

 part, from the bottom upward, as bearers; 

 and as any very old, long-advanced, naked 

 branches appear, prune them down in 

 "Winter, and introduce lower, advancing 

 young wood in their flead ; training the 

 whole ftraight and clofe to the wall and 

 efpalier, at full length, becaufe (horten- 

 ing the ends cuts away the only fruitful 

 parts, as before remarked, 



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