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CHAP. XXXVI. 



Pruning and Nailing of a Pear-Tree the 

 firft Summer after planting. 



THE Fig. 4. reprefents a tree cut and 

 nailed with three or four buds at 

 the upper end of the ftem, and two hori- 

 zontals left at full length, to which due 

 regard muft be had the firft fummer, and 

 let all the other buds which may probably 

 break forth from the ftem be rubbed off; 

 the horizontals muft be alfo well obferved, 

 for fometimes it happens that a ftrong 

 fhoot, or more, will put out from thofe 

 buds near the ftem, which will rob all the 

 ethers fo much, that when a tree is weak, 

 the upper parts of the horizontals are 

 thereby killed or much weakened ; but in 

 May it may be eafily difcovered what pro- 

 gress each bud is likely to make, and if 

 many of thofe which were defignedly left 

 on be weak, having put forth but a few 

 fmall leaves, or none at all, then if there 

 be a few ftrong ones proceeding from the 

 horizontals^ the ends of thofe new-made 



branches 



