xiv Instructions for Pruning, Budding, Sec. 



be replaced, and nailed in the manner before directed, 

 for upon this care their future good depends. 



' In the fccond fummer obferve the direSions of the 

 firfV, and never (bortcn any of the fnoots in that feafon, 

 unlefs to fur^nilll branches, TirA this not to be dene later 

 than Aprih The thlid year's management will be nearly 

 the fame as the former, but only obierve, that as they 

 produce their blolfom btids, not only upon the laft year's 

 wood, but alfo upon fludp or fpurs, which are produced 

 from two years wood, care mufl: be taken of them in 

 the fummer management; and in your winter pruning 

 be careful to furnifh wood for every part of your tree, 

 carefully cutting off all luxuriant branches, or difplacing 

 them as foon as they arc produced. 



Cherry. Their (hoots fliould never be fbortened, 

 for the mod of them produce their fruit buds at 

 the extreme part, and it frequenily occafions the death 

 of the flioot if they are taken off, for this tree is re- 

 markable for its difagreement with the knife; their 

 branches therefore are to be laid their full length hori- 

 zontally, and when there is a vacancy to be filled, in 

 May flop feme Itrong adjoining bianch, this will occa- 

 fion two or more (hoots to be put out for the purpofe : 

 Obferve at this feafon all fore-right fhoots, are to be 

 pinched oiT, and not to remain longer, as cutting them 

 in winter would occafion the tree to gum, but when you 

 are doing this, be careful not to rub off" the finds or 

 ipurs, which are produced upon the two or three years 

 old wood, as from them much Iruit may be expecled. 



Currants produce their fruit upon their former's year 

 v.'ood, and upon fmall fnags from the old wood, fo that 

 in pruning them, thcfe fnags are to be preferved, and 

 the young fhoots fnortened to their length, not fufFering 

 their fliouts to lie tooclofe: Never cut their fnags, as 

 from them the fruit is produced. 



Cr'ons or Grafts, are fnoois or buds* taken from a tree 

 in order to propagate its fpeecies, and their value is. 



* Buds or Eyes, are that fwtlling on the tree from 

 whence proceed the young leaves or hlofToms, the latter 

 of which appear mere fwuln than the otiier, v;hich is ne- 

 ctfrary to be cbferved in prnnif-g. that 



