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 niade ufe of In order to gain one, or 

 elfe bring the flem to a horizontal po- 

 fition, and recover a new flem from the 

 firft fhoot that offers. 



If both the horizontals ar^ dead, others 

 mufl be brought to their places from 

 the parts above by the fides of the flem, 

 as before directed when one was wanting, 

 or elfe bring down the flem for one, 

 and make one of the young branches the 

 flem. 



But let both be fuppofed to be alive, and 

 to have made flioots nearly like thofe in 

 Fig. 5. the firfl thing necefl'ary to be ob- 

 lerved is their extremities, which I before 

 direded to be nailed more upright than 

 the other parts, in order to promote their 

 fhooting out to a greater length ; but if 

 any of the collaterals near them is fhot out 

 to a greater length than they, fo as to ex- 

 tend itfelf farther on the wall than thofe in 

 a horizontal pofition, let their places be 

 changed 3 that is> let the long fhoot be 

 laid horizontally, and that which was the 

 horizontal before remain for a bearer. 

 What the horizontals have increafed in 

 length this year, mufl be nailed in the fame 

 I z pofition 



