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bearing, as that which produced them was 

 before it was cut, fo that by cutting there 

 is a year loft before they bear ; and every 

 time this is performed on the ends of 

 branches, it retards their bearing : I own it 

 increafes the number of branches, but many 

 of them will be in fuch places where they 

 cannot continue the next year, without be- 

 ing too near each other in fome parts : 

 I nail them horizontally, with an intent 

 of procuring bearers at all parts of the 

 horizontals 3 for the buds neareft the ftem 

 are always more compaft, and of a flatter 

 fhape, than thofe which are neareft the 

 extremities of the branches, and are very 

 feldom opened, if nailed upright 5 then the 

 lower parts of the branches will be left na- 

 ked, and the upper will put forth fhoots 

 of too great a length to be left unnailed ; 

 and if the next year they be cut out, or 

 fliortned,it increafes the vigour of the other 

 parts fo much, that many ftuds put forth 

 Ihoots, which would have }>roduced blof- 

 foms in a year or two more ; and if nailed 

 up, will be nearer each other, or in a more 

 ere6l pofition than what the beft authors 

 direft, and the beft pruners pra6tife. 



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