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more slender shoots at the extremities of the branches (which slender 

 shoots are intended to bear blossoms), than are beneficial to the tree 

 itself: and if the number of these were reduced in the transplanted 

 tree, it would still expose as much foliage to the light, as if many more 

 such slender shoots remained, while the expenditure of sap in forming 

 shaded, and therefore useless foliage, would be saved, I have trans- 

 planted fruit-trees of different kinds of a large size, without shortening 

 their large branches, and I have always found much advantage, in dimi- 

 nishing considerably the number of their slender terminal shoots." 



