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leaves, and are a good fhelter to the blof-. 

 foms and fruit. It is obfervable, that this 

 tree bears moft fruit at the end of its 

 branches ; and for this reafon, the ends of 

 branches ought not to be taken oft, neither 

 from this tiee, nor any other nearly hke 

 it, as thofe are which I juft before men- 

 tioned. But the apiicut fometimes pro- 

 duces fiioots in autumn, from the ends c^ 

 thofe fhoots made in the fummer^ thele 

 latter made fhoots generally die in winter, 

 therefore fhould be taken off at the next 

 time of pruning. 



Though 1 iiavefhewn the illconfequences 

 pf pruning iiandards before bloflbming, 

 except at the time of planting; yet trees 

 planted againft walls fhould be pruned in a 

 proper manner, in order to reduce their 

 branches to a juft number : for were all to 

 be left on, there would be too many to 

 place againft the wall, without being too 

 near each other, or at leaft than thofe 

 would be upon the fame tree, if it was a 

 ftandard 3 for there is a great difference be- 

 tween one and the other j moft ftandard 

 trees grow naturally in fhape like a cone 

 pr hemifphere, fo that if one tree be a ftand- 



