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farthest extremity of the branches, as before the 

 operation, you have fruit of the like quality all over 

 the surface : and at the same time your plan is still 

 advancing towards the entire renovation of your tree. 

 For supposing that, in the course of five or six years, 

 the shoots which you have trained on the face of the 

 old branches have gained a sufficient length, you 

 have only to lift them carefully from their site, till 

 the old branches are removed, and then promote 

 them to their proper station upon the wall. Those 

 which occupied the intervening spaces will be equally 

 advanced, and of course the tree will be wholly reno- 

 vated. I have seen other shifts for old trees, but 

 none which provides, as this does, both for the con- 

 tinuance of a crop, and the entire replacing of the 

 old wood with new; and that which in description 

 is so obviously feasible has been proved by experiment 

 to be wholly successful. 



The same may be done with an apple of a good 

 sort, and without any symptoms of canker. If the 

 wood be healthy, and the fruit of an indifferent sort, 

 the process may be altogether the same, except that 

 grafts should be made on all the shoots which are 

 designed to be permanent allowing the breastwood, 

 which is laid in for temporary use, to bear after its 

 own kind. But when canker appears on the old wood, 

 it is probable also that it will soon affect the new, 

 though grafted ; and, in that case, it will be better 

 to plant young trees, at a proper distance, one on 

 each side of the old, taking such fruit as the old will 

 supply, till the young get forward, and removing 

 only such branches as come in the way. 



With regard to the recovery of other misguided 



