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&c. completely with bearers, generally 

 all extended entire ; for if plum branches 

 are fliortened it will retard their bearing, 

 and force out numerous rampant, ufe- 

 lefs, unfruitful fhoots, and no fruit 

 buds ; but being arranged at their natural 

 length, they fhoot moderately, and in 

 two or three years furnifh abundant bear- 

 ing fpurs ; the fame branches fhould be 

 continued many years as bearers, or as 

 long as they remain fruitful, and only 

 retain occafional new fupplies of young 

 wood, as any of the old cafually affume 

 a barren or decayed ftate. 



But to preferve regularity and fruitful- 

 nefs in the wall and efpalier plums, they 

 mud be pruned every Summer and 

 Winter. 



Go over the trees every Summer, in 



June 



