264. FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



and others produced where improperly placed 

 for training, as alfo to thin others where 

 confiderably fuperfluous or too abundant, 

 or remarkably crouded : but obferve, of 

 the weli-placed ftrcng fiioots, and thofe in 

 fruit, leave an abundant fupply, and always 

 retain a fufficiency in vacancies, and care- 

 fully furnifh the bottom parts properly 

 with fome Itrong young fhoots advancing be- 

 tween the main branches. The whole that 

 are now retained preferve moftly at their full 

 length for the prefent ; and according as you 

 pioceed, or at leaft when the reierved ihoots 

 are advanced about a foot long, or little more, 

 to admit of laying in, let them be nailed in 

 regularly to the wall, &c. generally running 

 orextcnding the fhoors moftly in length during 

 their principal growth, or till July, Sec, 



The fruit-ftioots, furniihed with prefent 

 fruit in advancing growth, may, when ad- 

 vanced of fome tolerable length, be lliortened 

 or topped two or three joints above the upper- 

 moll bunches, to retain the principal fupply 

 of nouriihment to promote the growth of the 

 fruit more effedually on the refpedive (hoots. 



After the above early-and general Summer 

 regulations of the vines, in April, May, June, 

 &c. they, in their peculiar manner, will ad- 

 vance in a further free growth, both in many 

 advancing new ihoots, and thofe before re- 

 tained, encreafiflg confiderably in length, and 

 ihould be well attended to accordingly, in 

 order to difplace the improper after-produc- 

 tions before defcribed, and to nail in the ad- 

 vanced fruitful and other proper ihoots clofe 



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