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In efpallers, it is eligible to plant a princi- 

 pal portion of the choiceft kinds of apples, at 

 fifteen feet diftance thofe grafted on dwarf 

 Hocks; and on free Hocks, eighteen or twenty- 

 feet afanderin the row; and, in all of which, 

 train the branches horizontally to the trellies, 

 &c. four to five or fix inches afunder, in a 

 regular expanfion, not fhortening any, but 

 continued all ;.! theif fall length, as far as 

 there is room to extend them, as, from their 

 nature of bearing, apple-trees do not admit 

 of fhortening, and is only to be prasftifed oc- 

 cafionally, where the fhoots extend beyond 

 their limited bounds, or in any very irre^^ular 

 growth, or to prune cafual decayed ends of 

 fhoots, &;c. For, as before obferved, the va- 

 rieties of apples in general arc all of the fpur- 

 bearing kinds : that is, they produce their fruit 

 from Ihort natural fpurs, being robuft ftiort 

 fhoots of half an inch to one or two inches 

 long, rifing naturally at the fides and extreme 

 parts of the branches, when from two or three 

 to many years old, more efpecially if the 

 branches are not fhortened ; as fhortening 

 not only deltroys the extreme bearing part of 

 the branches, but occafions their pufliing 

 forth ftrong lateral wood (hoots below, in the 

 places where the fide natural fruit-fpnrs would 

 otherwife appear, and thereby retard their 

 bearing ; which therefore determines, that 

 in the general or occafional pruning of thefe 

 trees, in efpaliers. Sec. the (hoots and branches 

 that are defigned for hearer;, fhould not be 

 U fhorreped. 



