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wicre there is not a Neceflitjr for 

 Branches to fill tlie Wall ; for there 

 cannot be a greater Fault commit- 

 ted, than that of multiplying the 

 Number ot Shoots, £o as to caufe 

 a Confufion, whereby the Branches 

 will be too weak to produce good 

 Fruit: Befides, when they are too 

 dolely laid in upon the Wall, the 

 Air is excluded from the Shoots by 

 the great Number of Leaves, Co 

 that they are never duly ripcn'd, 

 and, confequently, what Fruit is 

 produced thereon can't be fb well- 

 tafted as thofe which are produced 

 Upon fuch Trees where the Shoots 

 jeceive all the Advantages of Sun 

 and Air to maturate them. 



Thus having fet down the Me- 

 thod of Training up young Ttces, 

 i (hall now proceed to their Pru- 

 ning, and future Management i 

 Ivhich being the fame as with 

 full-grown Trees, will fcrve for 

 general Diredtions how to manage 

 thefe Sorts ot Fruit. 



In the Pruning of Peach and Ne- 

 Marine Trees (which require the 

 fame Culture) the two following 

 Rules fhould be ftridly obferv'dj 

 <viz. ift. That every Part of the 

 Tree be equally furnilh'd with 

 Bearing- Wood ; and, idly. That 

 the Branches are not laid in too 

 clofe to each other, for the Rea- 

 {bns before laid down, with fbme 

 others, which will be hereafter in- 

 ferted. As to the firfl, it muft 

 be obferv'd, that all thefe Trees do 

 produce their Fruit upon the young 

 Wood, either of the preceding 

 Year, or at moft the two Years 

 Shoots, after which Age they do 

 not bear : Therefore the Branches 

 fhould be pruned fb as to caufe 

 them to produce new Shoots an- 

 nually in every Part of the Tree j 

 which cannot be done in the ordi- 

 nary Method of Pruning, where 



Perfbns negledl their Trees at tJie 

 Seafbn when ^cy are raoft capa- 

 ble of Management, which is in 

 May, at which Time the luxuri- 

 ant Growth of Branches may be 

 check'd by pinching, and new 

 Shoots produced where they arc 

 wanting, by flopping the neigh- 

 bouring Branches; which Shoots 

 being produced at that Seafbn, will 

 have Time enough to ripeti and 

 gain Strength before the Autumn 

 comes on j whereas all thofe Shoots 

 which are produced after the Be- 

 ginning of June, will be crude and 

 pithy i and tho* they may fbme- 

 times produce a few Bloflbms, yet 

 thbfe do rarely bring Fruit ; nor 

 are the future Branches good which 

 are produced from fuch Wood, the 

 Veflels being too large to ftram the 

 Juices, {o that they eafily admit 

 great Quantities of crude Nourifh- 

 ment to pafs through them. There- 

 fore thofe Perfbns who only regard 

 their Wall Trees at two different 

 Seafbns, viz. the Winter and Mid- 

 fummer Pruning, can't poffibly have 

 them in good Order j for when all 

 the Branches which were produ- 

 ced in the Spring are permitted to 

 remain until the Middle or Latter- 

 end of June (as is the common 

 Praftice) fome of the moft vigo- 

 rous will draw the greateft Part of 

 the Nouriflirnent from the weaker 

 Branches, which, when the fbrong 

 ones are taken off, will be tod 

 weak to produce fair Fruit; and 

 hereby the Strength of the Trees is 

 exhaufted to nourifh the ufelcfs 

 Branches, which are annually cut 

 off again : And thus are too many 

 Trees managed, and at the fame 

 time Complaints made of their 

 Luxuriancy ,• becaule two or three 

 Shoots, by drawing in the grcatefl 

 Share of the Nouriflirnent, grow 

 very flrong and woody : (whereas, 



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