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the two years wood, may be preferved^ 

 as they often afford good peaches. 



As you proceed in this general Win- 

 ter-pruning, fhorcen mod of the referved 

 fupply of young bearing wood, that they 

 may produce fuccefiion-bearing moots 

 from the bwer eyes - 9 otherwife will fur- 

 nidi them only towards the top, and leave 

 the bottom naked, beingcarefuljhowever, 

 to prune them according to their ftrength, 

 the moderate ones to eight, ten, or twelve 

 inches, the flronger ones to twelve or 

 fifteen, and the firongeft prune from 

 about fifteen or eighteen inches, to two 

 feet long-, and very flrong luxuriant 

 fhoots of a generally vigorous -mooting 

 tree, may be left ftill longer in pro- 

 portion, becaufe, if vigorous ihoots are 



cut 



