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then the fiat parts of the ftem will produce 

 young branches, which if laid horizontally 

 will produce bearers. 



When a fhoot produced at B is not much 

 more than two foot long, it may then be 

 deemed not ftrong enough to produce 

 more than two or three branches fit for 

 horizontals, and ought to be cut about 

 two or three inches higher than the places 

 where the horizontals are required ^ but 

 when a flioot is three or four foot long, 

 then it may be fuppofed ftrong enough 

 to produce more fhoots, and by the turn- 

 ings, as from B to D, they will be at the 

 places defired. 



Tho' I have only fliewn one flrong 

 branch in this place which is nailed up 

 for a ftem, without leaving any of the 

 laft year's fhoots, but only two that are 

 too fliort for horizontals, yet when there 

 are fhoots of about a yard long or more, 

 in thofe places where horizontals are re- 

 quired, they ought to be nailed as A and 

 C are in Fig. 4. though at proper dif- 

 tances from them, fuppofe they either 

 proceed from the buds left at B, or if 

 they be collaterals from one of thofe fhoots. 

 I But 



