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foot perhaps from the wall (^See Plate IV. Fig. '2.); 

 the best way to bring them to have fine heads, 

 and to cover the wall, is to head them down as low 

 as possible, taking care to leave some small shoots, 

 if there are any ; if not, leave a bud or two at the 

 ends of some of the shoots. Sometimes you will 

 have a great difficulty to find any buds. If that be 

 the case, in the Spring, before you mean to head 

 the trees, make some incisions in the branches. 

 (See Plate XI.) This should be done on differ- 

 ent branches, at the most convenient places for 

 filling the wall with good wood. The size of the 

 incisions should be from one to two inches, ac- 

 cording to the largeness of the branches ; observ- 

 ing to make them just above the joint where the 

 buds should come out. If you cut just below a 

 joint, the shoot will die as far as the next bud or 

 joint ; and, of course, injure the tree, if no remedy 

 be applied. 



The time for performing this operation is in 

 March, April, or May. The above method qf 

 making incisions is only recommended, where 

 there are no young shoots or buds, and when the 

 tree is in the last stage of the canker. 



Where you have a few young shoots, or buds, 

 cut down the head as near to them as you can, 

 and take great care to cut out the canker till you 

 come to the sound bark. The canker makes its 

 appearance in Cherry-trees in the same manner as 

 it does in Peach and Nectarine trees, and may be 

 easily discovered by an attentive observer. If any 



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