F R U I T-T R E E S. 6i 



CHAP. XXII. 



Of Shapes proper for Pears, Apples, Plums, 

 and the ftrongeft growing Cherries, whe- 

 ther defigned for Walls or Efpaliers, 

 and how they lliould be ordered in the 



Nurfery. 



^'"T^ I S requifite that all thefe kinds 

 JL fhould have three principal branches 

 or more, anfwering the figure in plate III. 

 figure I. and if they be more than a year 

 old from the time of grafting, it is a gene- 

 ral cuftom with nurferymen to cut the 

 branches every year, leaving only two or 

 three buds of each young fhoot^ but I would 

 have tv/o fide branches left to their full 

 length, both in the apple, cherry, plum, 

 and pear-tree, and only have the central 

 or upright flioots cut to a foot in length, 

 if there be three of them (as generally 

 there are upon a grafted tree-,) but if there 

 be only tvv^o, then one of them ought to 

 be cut to about the length of fix inches, 

 and the other left to its full length, which 

 will produce from mofc of the buds ftuds 

 8 for 



