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year old, planted out in rows a yard dif- 

 tance, to have from two or three, to four 

 or five years growth ; then graft or bud 

 them with the proper forts, from four to 

 fix feet high, for half and full ftandards, 

 and within a foot of the ground for 

 wall and efpalier dwarfs, &c. 



When the firft fhoots, from grafting, 

 &c. are a year old, cut them down in 

 March to a few eyes, to procure lower 

 branches in order to give the head its 

 firft requifite form, as in other fruit trees. 



Afterwards let the flandards remain 

 entire, and branch out each way : but 

 the dwarfs for walls andefpaliersmay have 

 fome of the fucceeding (hoots fhortened 

 occafionally, either in Spring, or young 

 ones of the year pinched in Summer, to 



procure 



