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ii6 A TREATISE OF 



pofition as thofe of the laft year, along the 

 fame courfe of bricks, &c. What thefe 

 horizontals are fuppofed to have encreafed 

 in length in one year, is between A and E 

 on the one fide, and between C and F on 

 the other. When trees have fhot out 

 ftrongly, as this is fuppofed to have done, 

 the lefs they are cat before they bear the 

 better, for by cutting fliort nothing more 

 is gained than a greater number of flroots 

 too near each other, and too vigorous for 

 bearing ; and fometimes it caufes the col- 

 laterals that proceed from the horizontals 

 to make fhoots, wdiich collaterals would 

 otherwife have produced bloffoms in a year 

 or two. 



I have directed before to nail or cut fuch 

 collaterals as might happen to be of too 

 great a length ^ but now, at this time of 

 winter-pruning, it ought to be confidered 

 what length they fliould be left at, moft 

 proper for bearers s for feveral kinds of 

 pears produce their fruit upon ftuds, or 

 branches, of different ages and uncertain 

 lengths : fo that if the collaterals proceed- 

 ing from the horizontals be almoft equal 

 in ier^gth, let them all remain, and let the 



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