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ber upon each tree : by which means the 

 trees are mjured many ways ^ for though 

 they fometimes grow vigoroufly, yet th^ 

 branches are unduly placed, in any kind 

 of fruit-trees, either for walls, efpaliers, 

 dwarfs, or ftandards : if the branches are 

 too near each other, fome of them will be 

 deprived of the benefit of the fun's rays ; 

 and when the branches of wall-trees, or 

 efpaliers, ftandnear each other, upon their 

 ftems, and are cut too fhort, it will be im- 

 poflible to lay them in a horizontal pofi- 

 tion, without being much clofer than they 

 ought to be, in order to make them bear j 

 and if many of the new branches are cut 

 out the next year, thofe that remain will 

 be more luxuriant, and not bloflbm very 

 early. 



Befides, cutting branches too fhort, viz. 

 to the length of fix or eight inches each, at 

 the time of planting, fometimes occafions 

 death, or ficknefs, efpecially if the branches 

 be very ftrong, or more than one year old ; 

 for then the buds left on, having been fo 

 much (haded, are very flat, and their fold- 

 ings much more difficult to be forced open 

 by the fap in its afcending motion, than 

 1 thofe 



