ZIO FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



As all wall-trees and efpaliers require an 

 annual pruning, every Summer and Winter, 

 n {hould be performed according to their dif- 

 ferent orders of bearing, which in feme forts 

 is upon fmall fpurs, or (hort thick young 

 /hoots, an inch or two long, as in apples, 

 pears, cherries, plums, &c arifmg all along the 

 fides of the two, three, and feveral years old 

 branches, and at the extremities, which deter- 

 mines that in the general courfe of pruning, 

 it is improper to Ihorten ihe branches and 

 ihoots that are defigned for bearers; and as 

 the fame branches continue feveral years fruit- 

 ful, they muii be retained accordingly. And 

 in other fpecies of trees, they bear principally 

 on the young year old wood, as in peaches, 

 ne^arines, apricots, iigs, grape-vines, a ge- 

 neral fuppiy of each year's fhc-ots mufr be left 

 in Summer and Winter, for fucceiTionai bear- 

 ing ; and in Winter pruning, a proportionable 

 part of the former year's bearers, and old 

 naked wood, cut away, as alfo the fuperfluous 

 or over-abundant, nnd all ill-placed young 

 Ihootf, to make fuflicient room to train in 

 the proper fuccefiion fupplv of the new bear- 

 ers, in regular order, to produce the crop of 

 fruit the enfuing Summer: and generally, as 

 the fame Ihor^ts both produce the fruit, and 

 the fu-pply of (hoots for bearing the fucceedlng 

 year, it is proper, in the afbrefaid Winier- 

 pruriii'g, 10 ihorten the referved fh. ots (ex- 

 cept the tig) to promote rheir furnifcing more 

 effectually a lateral production towards their 

 luwtr parts in Sumxner, to train in at full 



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