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defigned for ftandards fhould be grafted, 

 and fo fliould likewife medlars. 



C H A P. XX. 



General Obfa-vations to be made in the 

 choice of Fruit-Trees. 



THEY that intend to buy their trees, 

 fhould chufe fuch (after the flocks 

 and kinds are known) as fland not too 

 clofe in the nurfery 3 for if they do, their 

 fhoots will be long-jointed, tender and 

 Ipungy 5 befides, their buds will be very 

 weak, efpecially the loweft, and will be 

 long kept back from a bearing flate, by 

 having been deprived by each other of the 

 fun's rays, of which no trees can have too 

 ihtach in a nurfery 5 for they attraft and 

 carry off a great quantity of watery par- 

 ticles from them \ and the earth about them 

 when planted at proper diftances, which, 

 when they are not, are very prejudicial to 

 them, and if weeds have been fuffered 

 to grow amongft dvv^arfs, their branches 

 will appear like the branches of thofe 

 wjiich grew too near each pther, or rather 



worfe^ 



