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CHAP. XXXIII. 



Cuts of Trees explained, as in the third Plate. 



I Am fenfible that cuts made ufe of in 

 feveral trafts of gardening, in order to 

 fhew the figures of fruit-trees, are very- 

 much ridiculed, becaufe of the uncertainty 

 of the number of branches which a tree 

 may put forth, and of the difference which 

 may be eafily difcerned between one tree 

 and another, that are both planted at the 

 fame time, in Hke foil and fituation. Yet 

 I have chofen to make ufe of fketches to 

 explain my method of cutting, &c. better 

 than I was capable of doing by words only. 

 Plate III. Figure i. is the fnape of a 

 tree that is properly flrong. What I call 

 properly flrong, is, one that has two or 

 three branches of a yard in length or m.ore ; 

 one that has its branches lefs than two feet 

 in length, I call weak, which has been 

 grafted a year, and taken up in order to 

 tranfplant it, whether it be an apple, pear, 

 or plum, or cherry-tree, for they all have 

 nearly this fhape at the age aforefaid. Fig-. 

 H 2. 



