206 FRUIT CARDRN DISPLAYED. 



Ibmewhat circular order; o'hers are trained 

 convex, or full heads, with an advancing 

 upright leader in the middle, branching 

 out iideways all round ; and fome are per- 

 mitted to branch out from the bottom, in a na- 

 tural order, and cutting out only very irregular 

 branches ; and in all oF which they may be 

 planted in any principal borders, next main 

 walks, in a row ten to fifteen feet dirtance ; 

 the branches fuffered to advance in their full 

 growth, withou: Ihortening, except any that 

 afTume an irregular diredion, or extend out 

 tco much in length beyond the others of the 

 general expanfion, or to prune out any cafual 

 ill-placed produdions, or branches growing 

 acrofs the others in an irregular manner. 



The foregoing being the different orders in. 

 which fruit-trees are generally and occafionally 

 trained, they, for thefe purpofes, are propa- 

 gated or raifed by different methods, as graft- 

 ing, budding, layers, cuttings, fuckers, ac- 

 cording to the different fpecies of trees, 

 which is explained for each fort under its 

 proper head; obferving, in general, that in 

 propagating by grafting and budding, the 

 graft and bud of the refpettive trees intended 

 to propagate, are inferted into the Itock or 

 il:em of young trees of the fame family, raifed 

 from fetd, and fucker*;, &c. and for this pur- 

 pofe are commonly called llocks ; and which, 

 for common wall and efpalier trees, are grafted 

 or budded within fix or eight inches of the 

 ground, to obtain lower branches, forming a 

 regular expanfion, to fpread the wall and 



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