FRUIT-TREES. 79 



thofe at the extremities of the fhoots, which 

 always appear more plump. 



This is the fate, in a great meafure, of 

 thofe that were cut down in the nurfery 

 the year before, which with proper cutting 

 and management might have been made 

 good trees. This method of (liort cutting, 

 which, as I have obferved, is generally 

 praftifed upon ftandard-trees of all kinds, 

 has different effefls, according to the 

 various ftates the heads of trees are in at 

 that time, for fome have their branches of 

 one year old only, others of two, and 

 others of three years old, &c. Now if the 

 head of a tree be only one year old, fhort- 

 ning the branches caufes the fucceeding 

 ones to fpringouttoo near each other; by 

 which they will, in a very few years, either 

 crofs and gall each other, or the head will 

 be compofed of too great a number of 

 branches 5 fo that all of them will not be 

 of a proper ftrength, as fhall be demon- 

 ftrated hereafter, by cuts adapted to the 

 feveral kinds of fruit-trees. 



This fhort cutting or flumping is the 

 moft injurious to trees whofe heads are 

 furnifhed with branches of two or three 



years 



