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mentioned) fb that it is impoffible 

 for a Perfbn, let him be ever fo 

 well skill'd in Fruit-Trees, to re- 

 duce them into any tolerable Order 

 by Winter-prmiing only, \i they are 

 wholly negle6led in the Spring. 



There are others, who do not 

 intirely negle6l their Trees during 

 the Summer Seafbn, as thofe be- 

 fore-mentioned j but yet do little 

 more good to them by what they 

 call Sumrfter-prunmg ; for thefe Per- 

 Ibns negledt their Trees at the pro- 

 per Seafon, which is in May, when 

 their Shoots are produced, and do 

 only ahoMt MUfummer go over them, 

 nailing in all their Branches, ex- 

 cept fuch as are produced fore- 

 right from the Wall, which they 

 cut out ; and at the fame time do 

 otten fhorten moft of the other 

 Branches; all which is intirely 

 wrong Prafticci for thole Bran- 

 ches which are intended for bearing 

 the iiicceeding Year, fhould not be 

 (hortened during the Time of their 

 Growth, which will caufe them to 

 produce two lateral Shoots from 

 the Eyes below the Place where 

 they were ftoppd, which Shoots 

 will draw much of the Strength 

 from the Buds of the firft Shoot, 

 whereby they are often flat, and 

 do not produce their Bloflbms ; and 

 it thofe two lateral Shoots are not 

 intirely cut away at the Winter-pru- 

 ning, they will prove injurious to 

 the Tre«. And in this Method, 

 fuffering thofe luxuriant Shoots to 

 remain upon the Tree until Mid- 

 fummer before they are difplaced, 

 they will exhauft a great Share of 

 the Nourilhment from the other 

 Branches (as was before obferved) 

 and by fhading the Fruit all the 

 Spring Seaibn, when they are cut 

 away, and the other Branches faft- 

 ened to the Wall, the Fruit by be- 

 ing fo fuddenly expofed, will re- 



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ceiVe a very great Check, which 

 will caufe their Skins to grov\^ 

 tough, and thereby render them 

 lefs delicate. This is to be chief- 

 ly underftood of Stone-Fruit and 

 Grapes ; but Tears and Apples being 

 much hardier, do not fuffer fo 

 much, thought it is a great Difad- 

 vantage to thofe alfo to be thus 

 managed. 



It muft alfo be remarked, that 

 Teaches, Ne^arines, Apricocks, Cher-^ 

 ries and Tlumbs, are always in the 

 greatell Vigour, when they are the 

 leafl: maim'd by the Knife j for 

 where thefe Trees have large Am- 

 putations, they are very fubjed to 

 gum and decay ; fo that it is cer- 

 tainly the moll prudent Method* 

 carefully to rub off all ufelefs Buds 

 when they are firft produced, and 

 pinch others, where new Shoots 

 are wanted to flipply the Vacancies 

 of the Wall; by which Manage- 

 ment Trees may be fb ordered, as 

 to want but little of the Knife in 

 Winter-Truning, which is the fureft 

 Way to preferve thelc Trees health- 

 ful, and is performed with lefs 

 Trouble than the common Me- 

 thod. 



The Management of Teetrs and 

 Apples, is much the fame with 

 thefe Trees in Summer, but in 

 Winter they muft be very different- 

 ly pruned i for as Teaches and NeBa- 

 rines do, for the moft part, produce 

 their Fruit upon the former Year's 

 Wood, and therefore muft have 

 their Branches fhortened according 

 to their Strength, in order to produce 

 new Shoots for the fucceeding Year ; 

 fb Tears and Apples, on the con- 

 trary, producing their Fruit upon 

 Curfons or Spurs, which come out 

 of the Wood of five, fix or feven 

 Years old j Ihould not be Ihortened, 

 becaufe thereby thofe Buds which 

 were naturally difpofed to form 



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