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fhortened, where there is fufficient fcope to 

 run them ; and they will thus, in their full 

 extenfion, produce bearing fpurs all along the 

 fides to their extremities, and the fame 

 branches and fpurs continue many years in 

 full bearing. But the wall and efpalier trees 

 will require an annual pruning in Summer and 

 Winter, to cut out the fuperfluous or over- 

 abundant young wood, fore-right and other 

 ill-placed flioots of each year, with ill-grow- 

 ing and unfruitful old branches, and dead 

 wood ; at the fame time to retain and train 

 occafional requifite fupplies of young fhoots 

 in vacancies. — Obferving the fame' method as 

 direfted for apples. 



Pears ripening for eating off the trees, in 

 July, A uguft, and September, fhould be ga- 

 thered accordingly as wanted, before too ripe 

 and meally ; and late ripeners, the end of 

 September, and in Oilober, fhould be gathered 

 in thofe months for keeping, becoming mel- 

 low as they lie, in Odober, November, De- 

 cember, till next Spring; laying them in the 

 fruitery upon fhelves, or where convenient, 

 and clofc covered with dry ftravv a foot thick, 

 as obferved of the apples, examining them 

 occafionally, to draw out fuch as decay. 



CHERRIES.' 



/^HERRIES are fine Summer fruit, valuable 

 for their early maturity, and juicy refrefh- , 

 ing quality in hot weather, ripening from 

 May and June till Auguft and September, in 

 the different varieties,, both as table fruit, 



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