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greater quantity of fap, and produce as 

 good fruit as others of thq fame kind that 

 have been often pruned, adly, When the 

 fruit which they bear is fmall, and feme 

 of the branches that formerly bore are co-* 

 vered with mofs, or are dead, then in or- 

 der to enlarge the fruit, thofe mofiy and 

 dead branches fliould be taken out. 3dlys 

 When trees put forth young branches out 

 of fome of the old ones which have born, 

 it fhews they want to be relieved by taking 

 out the old ones, and enabling them to 

 produce their fruit upon others that are 

 young. 



From what has been faid, I think, it ap- 

 pears very plain, that cutting of ftandard 

 trees before they bear, is injurious, though 

 afterwards ferviceable ; i. e. of the cherry^ 

 plum, pear and apple. 



I never faw apricots, peaches, or ne6ta- 

 rines, bear without cutting ; but the almond ^ 

 which neareft refembles them, bears plen- 

 tifully, and produces part of its fruit upon 

 branches made the year before, and part 

 upon ftuds proceeding from branches' of 

 two years old ; both of them are furniflied 

 with buds at their ends, which produce 

 2 leaves^ 



