74 RECOVERY OF APPLE, CHERRY, 



tree will be wholly renovated. I have seen other 

 shifts for old trees, but none which provides, as this 

 does, both for the continuance of a crop and the en- 

 tire replacing of the old wood with new; and that, 

 which in description is so obviously feasible, has 

 been proved by experiment to be wholly successful. 



The same may be done with an apple of a good 

 sort, and without any symptoms of canker. If the 

 wood be healthy, and the fruit of an indifferent sort, 

 the process may be altogether the same, except that 

 grafts should be made on all the shoots which are 

 designed to be permanent; allowing the breastwood, 

 which is laid in for temporary use, to bear after its 

 own kind. But when canker appears on the old 

 wood, it is probably also that it will soon affect the 

 new, though grafted; and, in that case, it will be 

 better to plant young trees, at a proper distance, 

 one on each side of the old, taking such fruit as the 

 old will supply, till the young get forward, and re- 

 moving only such branches as come in the way. 



With regard to the recovery of other misguided 

 trees, the cherry, if not very old, may be cut over 

 with a circular sweep, about two feet from the 

 ground; and the consequent shoots set all off in 

 the manner of wheel spokes even bending some of 

 them downwards, so as to hide the deformity of 

 the naked stumps, and making them fast by tying, 

 not by nails driven into the old wood, as in the 

 case of the apple or pear. The peach, in its age 

 and disorder, had better be replaced by a young 

 tree. But with regard to apricots and plums, in 



