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Fruit will not be near fo hir as 

 thole produced on Ei'paiiers, and 

 will be more in danger of being 

 bruis'd or blown down by ftrong 

 Winds. The Diftance of placing 

 them for Efpalicrs muft be the 

 fame as againft: Walls, as muft: alio 

 their Pruning and Management, io 

 that whatever may be hereafter 

 mention'd for one, ftiould be alfb 

 underftood for both. 



Plums do not only produce 

 their Fruit upon the laft Year's 

 Wood, but a'fo upon Cur ions or 

 Spurs, which come out of Wood 

 that is two or three Years old ; io 

 that there is not a Neceflity ot 

 fhortenino; the Branches, in order 

 to obtain new Shoots annually, in 

 every Part of the Tree (as in Pea- 

 cheSf Necfarinesy &c. Iiath been di- 

 redled) fmce the more thefe Trees 

 are pruned, the more luxuriant they 

 grow, until the Strength of them 

 are exhaufted, and then they gum 

 and fpoil : Thcrctore the iafcll: Me* 

 thod to manage thefe Trees, is, to 

 lay in their Shoots horizontally, as 

 they are produced, at equal Diflan- 

 ces, in proportion to the Length of 

 their Leaves ; and where th?re is 

 not a fufficient Quantity of Bran- 

 ches to fill up the Vacancies of the 

 Tree, there the Shoots may be 

 pinch'd the Beginning ot May (in 

 the Manner as hath bees directed 

 for Fetiches, <&c.) which will caule 

 them to produce fbme lateral 

 Branches to fupply thofe Places j 

 and during the growing Seafbn, all 

 foreright Shoots fliould be difpla- 

 ced, and fuch as are to remain muft 

 be regularly train'd in to the Wall 

 or Eipalier, which will not only 

 render them beautiful, but alio give 

 to each an equal Advantage of Sun 

 and Air; And hereby the Fruit 

 will be always kept in a duftile, 

 growing State, which they fcldoni 



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are, when ovcr-fliaded with Shoots 

 i<)me Part of the Seafbn, and then 

 fuddenly expos'd to the Air, by the 

 taking off or training thofe Branches 

 in their proper Polition. 



With thus carefully going over 

 thefe Trees in the growing Seafbn, 

 there will be but little Occafion 

 for cutting them in Winter Pru- 

 ning, which (as I before have faid) 

 is of ill Coniequence to all Sorts of 

 Stone-Fruit : Belides, many of thefe 

 Fruits do produce BlofTom-buds, at 

 the Extremity of their former Year's 

 Shoots ', fo that when thofe are 

 ftiortened, the Fruit is cut away, 

 and hereby the Number of Shoots 

 is incrcafcd : For whenever a Branch 

 is fliortened, there is commonly 

 two or more Shoots produced from 

 the Eyes immediately below the 

 Cut ; lb that by thus unskilfully 

 Pruning, many Perfons crowd their 

 Trees with Branches, and thereby 

 render what little Fruit the Trees 

 do produce, very fmall and ill-tafl- 

 ed, which is very commonly found 

 in too many Gardens, where the 

 Manager, perhaps, thinks himfelf a 

 complete Mafler of his Bufinefs. 

 For nothing is more common, than 

 to fee every Branch of a Fruit- 

 Tree pafs the Difcipline of the 

 Knife, however agreeable it be to 

 the feveral Sorts of Fruits. 



Thofe few Rules before laid 

 down, will be fufficient, if due 

 Obfervation be join'd therewith, to 

 inftrudt any Perfbn in the right 

 Management ot thefe Sorts of Fruit- 

 Trees, therefore I fball not lay any 

 more on that Subjcdt, left:, by muU 

 tipiymg Inftruftlons, it may ren- 

 der it more obfeurc to a Learner. 



PSEUDOACACIAi Virginian A- 

 cacia, 'vul^o. 



The Charafiers are; 



It hath a papilioJiaceons Tlower, 

 from tohofe Flcwer^cup rifet the Poin- 



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