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ard, and another planted againft a wall, 

 and their branches extend in height and 

 breadth, alike from their flems, yet that 

 which is a ftandard fills a fpace more than 

 double to that of a tree planted againft a 

 wall: confequently, more than half the 

 branches or buds which put forth from 

 the latter ought to be taken off. This is 

 the beft reafon I can give for pruning of 

 wall-trees, before they have born 5 but af- 

 terward it is requifite to takethofe branches 

 out, and leave young ones to fuccced them. 

 But there is no need of fliortening branches 

 in any kind of old fruit-trees, to increafe 

 their number, for young ones will naturally 

 proceed from thofe that are nailed hori- 

 zontally. 



There are many that prune all kinds of 

 wall-trees immoderately, twice in the fpace 

 of a year: Firft, in the winter they fliorten 

 all the branches, under the pretence of 

 getting new wood to cover the walls 5 Se- 

 condly, in fummer they cut a large quan- 

 tity out of the trees ; becaufe, as they fay, 

 the wood is too ftrong, or that there is too 

 much. But to cut in the winter to gain 

 >YOod3 and to cut wood out in the fummer j, 



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