244 FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



the forts are generally trained in the wall-tree 

 order, to obtain good crops of fruit in beft 

 perfeflion. 



The apricot-tree, in all its varieties, pro- 

 duces the fruit principally upon the young" 

 wood of a year old, and upon fmall fpurs 

 arifingon the two and three years wood ; but the 

 general fupply bear moftly on the young flioots 

 of a year old, which emit the blciTom buds 

 immcdiacely from the eyes all along the fides 

 thereof; and of which fhoots, in the wall- 

 tree or efpalier tree pruning, a general fupply 

 of the bell placed mull be retained every year 

 for fucceflional bearers. And as the fame 

 ihoots both bear fruit, and a fupply of young 

 wood for next year's bearing, it is proper, in 

 Winter pruning only, generally to Ihorten 

 them moderately, to encourage their pro- 

 ducing lateral Ihoots more effe(flually, and 

 properly fituated, quite from the lower and 

 middle parts upward, otherwife would ad- 

 vance moftly towards the top, and leave the 

 under parts of the mother Ihoots naked, 

 whereby the lower and middle parts of the 

 trees would be unfurnilhed with fufhcient fup- 

 plies of bearing wood ; but in Summer, ft- 

 lefllng a plentiful fucceflion of the moderately 

 ftrong fide-fhoots, cutting out the fore-right 

 and fupcrabundancy, with fingularly luxuriant 

 fhoots ; and the others fliould be referved, and 

 nailed in at their whole length, till the general 

 Winter pruning, as above remarked. But in 

 Hand.ird apricots, the heads being permitted to 

 branch out ia a natural order, ihey only need 



occafional 



