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eroding and crowding branches, and 

 dead wood, permitting the general regu- 

 lar branches to advance according to their 

 natural growth. 



But the wall and efpalier Pears having 

 their branches conftantly arranged hori^ 

 zomally, five or fix inches afunder, re- 

 tain the fa trie branches many years as 

 bearers, at full length, as far as the al- 

 lotted fpace will admit, and as they will 

 annually produce many ufelefs (hoots, 

 they muft be pruned every Summer and 

 "Winter.— Early every Summer go over 

 the trees, and rub off all fore-right, and 

 evidently too abundant and very rank 

 moots of the year, and train in only the 

 main leading flioots and the beft regular 

 f^le ones entire, to chufe from in Win- 

 ter pruning, if wanted. — —In Winter 



pruning, performed from November till 



Spring, 



