CHOICE OP TREES. 17 



pruned and trained till they had attained the 

 size required. When trees of four or five \ 

 years growth after heading down, that are / 

 healthy and well furnished with fruit bear- ] 

 ing wood close up to the centre of the tree, 

 can be obtained, they will do well ; but great \ 

 care will be required in the taking up, re- r 

 moving, and planting them. It is very essen- 

 tial to have a tree that is well furnished with 

 young wood in every part of it, particularly 

 Peach and Nectarine trees, for when one of 

 those kinds has, by injudicious pruning, been 

 brought to such a state as to have branches 

 destitute of young wood for one or two feet 

 from their origin, it is with very great diffi- 

 culty that it can be afterwards furnished with 

 a proper supply. And it is particularly de- ( 

 sirable to have a tree that has been trained 

 for five or six years, suitably furnished in 

 every part ; for the wood that is made during 

 a few years at the first training, is what af- 

 terwards forms the main branches. There- 

 fore, whenever a Peach or a Nectarine tree 

 does not answer the description given, always 

 reject it. If a fruit tree of any of the other 

 kinds is not properly supplied with wood, it 

 may readily be obtained by shortening some 

 of the branches, as they will push shoots a 

 great deal more freely than Peaches or Nec- 

 tarines. 



Of whatever species your fruit tree is, 

 that is fixed upon, be very careful in taking 



