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cherry-tree, and the morella, fjiould be 

 treated the fame way. 



If almonds, apricots, and peaches, &c. 

 be cut down in the nurfery they' may be 

 helped with refpeft to their fhape in April, 

 by leaving fuch buds as point moft to the 

 Ihapes above diredled, and by confining 

 the fhoots that come from them with 

 flakes and bandages as they grow ; but I 

 don't mean that the branches of thefe 

 lafl: mentioned trees fhould be brought 

 to a level pofition, for if they were, they 

 would be apt to throw out ftrong collateral 

 flioots too near thofe which I call the mean 

 ftems, which would greatly retard their 

 progrefs 5 for the two principal fhould be 

 of as great a length as poffible in a proper 

 pofition, i. e. they fhould incline about 

 thirty degrees. 



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