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the peach kind ; and which plum ftocks miy 

 be railed from the ftones of the fruit, or 

 fuckers from the roots, though, as the mufcle 

 plum ftocks particularly arc often preferred, 

 that, to have them with certainty of that 

 kind, they are raifed by layers, cuttings, or 

 fuckers, as from feed they vary to other forts ; 

 obferving, that as the peach trees are culti- 

 vated principally in common dwarf wall trees, 

 the budding fhould be performed near the 

 ground ; or for half and tall ftandard wall 

 trees, to plant between the dwarfs, to cover 

 the upper part of high walls, they are budded 

 on tall Hocks, at three to four, five or fix feet 

 height. 



When the trees have produced the firll 

 fhoots from the budding of one Summer's 

 growth, they may be planted where they are 

 to remain, or when of two, three, to four 

 or five years old, arrived to a bearing ftate ; 

 but obferve, that whether the young trees 

 continue in the nurfery, or tranfplanted into 

 the garden, the firll fhoors fhould, either in 

 Summer have the tops pinched off early in 

 June, or when a year old, pruned or headed 

 down in March, to four, five or fix eyes, to pro- 

 duce a requifite fupply of branches below, to 

 give the head its firll proper formation, arranged, 

 in a fanned manner; and the fecond year's fhoots 

 alfo fhortened, to promote a further fupply of 

 branches ; after which prune away fore-right 

 produdlions, and train the others in a regular 

 expanfion, four to five or fix inches diflance : 

 and when the trees are from two or three, to 

 four or five years old, they will bear fruit. 



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