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a ftrong young tree to the fliape of Fig. 6. 

 in the time propofed before. 



Note, Thofe trees which have been 

 trained up in the nurfery, by the former 

 dire6lions, to a fliape nearly like Fig. 5. 

 in this plate, are at the time of re-plant- 

 ing, and afterward, to be treated in the 

 fame manner, with this precaution only, 

 that is, to cut off more branches at their 

 removal, by reafon of their lofs of roots. 



CHAP. XXXVIII. 



Pruning and Nailing Trees planted with 

 one or two healthy branches. 



AS what I have faid in the preceding 

 chapters concerning pruning, was 

 only with regard to a tree taken from the 

 nurfery, with three branches or more, I 

 fliall now fpeak of the pruning and order- 

 ing of thofe which are brought from the 

 nurfery with only one or two branches. 

 Let us fuppofe then that a tree has two 

 healthy branches, each of them a yard in 

 length, or more, if the ftronger of them 

 be laid horizontally, as A or C, in Fig. 4. 

 I 4 it 



