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horizontally, (for by that mode they occupy least space), they 

 are pruned at the fall of the leaf in November and properly 

 cleaned. With regard to the peach and apricot trees, they 

 are not pruned but merely cleaned, and the branches trained 

 and nailed in their natural direction from the centre of the 



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tree. Towards the end of February the moveable structure 

 is placed against the wall. 



As soon as the fruit is set, and in a fine day in April or 

 May, the moveable structure is taken off from the peaches 

 and apricots, in order to perform the operations of disbudding, 

 pinching, and the removal of old exhausted branchlets. The 

 fruits are thinned at the same time by cutting them through 

 the middle, and the leading shoots are nailed in. If insects 



