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fame time, both a crop of fruit, and a 

 fupply of new moots for next year's bear- 

 ers ; for the fame wood rarely bears 

 much fruit but once, except fometimes 

 on fome cafual fmall fpurs 3 arifing on 

 the two-years wood •, but muft depend 

 always on the laft year's (hoots for the 

 main crop of fruit •, a general annual fup- 

 ply of which muft be retained in every 

 part of the wall trees, as fucceflion bear- 

 ers, at full length, all Summer, and fhort- 

 ened in Winter pruning, to encourage 

 fuccefiion bearers from the lower eyes, 

 which would otherwife arife moftly to- 

 wards the extremities, and leave the bot- 

 tom naked ; for, as in the Apricot, the 

 general fupply of the immediate bearing 

 fhoots rife principally only from the year 

 old wood, produced the Summer before. 



Peaches 



