2-8 The Gardener's New Director. 



as they are apt to leave the lower part and center bare; 

 and when they are permitted to grow with too much vi- 

 gour, the quantity of wood-branches which they pro- 

 duce, ruins the fruit-branches, and prevents the tree 

 from bearing. 



When the trees on the walls get to the head of the 

 wall, or dwarfs grow to too great a height, he advifes to 

 cut them down, and train the trees anew. 



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Form cf a Tree uicll managed for bearing and to look 

 pleajing. 



THAT the tree may look well on the wall, and 

 bear plentifully in every part, train your lowed 

 branches, equally on each fide, and at eight inches dif- 

 tance from the furface of the border. Let them be 

 placed with a fmall rife from the horizontal, when the 

 border is level ; and the better to keep them in an agree- 

 able form, let the extremity of the lower branch extend 

 a little farther on the wall than the extremity of the 

 branches that are placed immediately above them. 

 The other branches fliould all of them be parallel to 

 thefe, and kept gradually a little fhorter, as they afcend 

 the wall. Keep the diftances between the branches as 

 nearly to an equality as pofTible. Thefe general direfli- 

 ons muft be carefully obferved while the tree is in a 

 growing flate. 



I would recommend Peaches budded on Apricot flocks, 

 rather than on Plum ftocks, the Apricot's wood being 

 hardy, ftrong, and compact in texture, whereas the 

 plumb wood, is too foft and pithy. 



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