208 FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



as is common in peaches, neflarines, apricots, 

 and fometimes plums and cherries, &c. or 

 alfo in grafted young trees with only two or 

 three naked fhoots ; and which f\rl\ ihoots, in 

 cither cafe, fhould in March following, when 

 a year old, and juft as they begin to pulli, 

 be cut down to five or fix eyes, or within fix 

 or eight inches of the bottom ; and they will 

 thus fend forth laterals from the remaining 

 lower eyes, to form the head as above. The 

 fame may alfo be pra£tifed for llandard trees 

 of all forts, to gain a firft regular fet of 

 branches ; and occafionally, in fome forts of 

 wall and efpalier trees particularly, if the fe- 

 cond year's Ihoots produced from the above 

 heading down, are not fully fufficient to form 

 a proper bottom expanfion, as a foundation 

 for furnil>iing all the others, thefe Ihould alfo 

 be pruned to a few eyes in Spring; and from 

 which there cannot fail of being enough pro- 

 duced in Summer, to give the head a firll re- 

 gular formation. Afterwards, the feveral 

 forts of wall and efpalier trees are to be pruned 

 in the common method direded for each fort, 

 in the annual pruning, requifite for all wall- 

 trees and efpaliers. And flandard trees, after 

 the head is thus formed, permit them to branch 

 moftly in their natural order, requiring only 

 occafional pruning, probably but once in fe- 

 veral years, as the heads have full fcope to 

 branch out all around. 



The above work of heading down or prun- 

 ing the firll: main (hoot, will alfo fometimes be 

 neceiTary in trees raifed from fuckers, layers, 



cuttiage. 



