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sorts which bear principally at the end of the 

 young shoots; where that is the case, you should 

 always leave plenty of the young one year 

 shoots ; for want of a knowledge of this many 

 fail in their crops on trained trees, for if the 

 bloom is cut off we cannot have fruit ; this is 

 easily discovered by leaving those sorts you 

 are unacquainted with till March, before you 

 prune them, you will then see where they shew 

 their bloom, and the tree may be kept free by 

 taking away old wood instead of young. 



BUDDING OF APPLES. 



Par. 15. Budding of apples some years 

 back, was much more practised than at the 

 present day, although in some nurseries in the 

 country, it is still continued, and, of course 

 they think it best : but I will here give my 

 reasons for not approving of the general prac- 

 tice of budding apples. 



The argument of those who approve of bud- 

 ding apples is, they generally grow taller for 

 standards the first summer, there being but 

 one shoot for the stock to support : granted ; 

 but this is often the cause of crooked, weak, 

 stemmed trees, for having run up so tall, they 

 frequently throw out shoots at the top the 

 following summer, which are often too heavy 



