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CHAPTER XXXIII. 



The renovating of old and neglected Fruit Trees. 



FIRST of those kinds which principally 

 produce their fruit upon spurs such as Apple, 

 Pear, Plum, Cherry, &c. It is not uncom- 

 mon to see trees of the kinds enumerated, 

 after they have been planted, trained, and 

 pruned, for twenty years and upwards, agree- 

 ably to the method generally practised, dis- 

 figured with spurs projecting from the wall 

 ten or twelve inches, and in many cases 

 more than that distance. The general result 

 of such bad management is, that the trees do 

 not bear their due proportion of fruit, (see 

 the Chapter on spurring fruit trees) neither is 

 that produced near so fine as it would have 

 been, had the trees been treated according 

 to directions laid down in this treatise. 



However trees of the before mentioned 

 description may by a judicious treatment 

 be recovered and brought to a much better 

 condition, also to bear nearly equal to young 

 trees of a similar size. In order to effect this 

 object, at the winter pruning a great number 

 of the spurs must be cut down to about 

 half an inch from the origin of each; but 

 if some of these branch spurs have a lateral 



