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it will bear fooner than if they had both 

 been cut ; and the earlier it bears, the fooner 

 a gentleman knov/s how he has been ufed 

 by the nurferyman y for if the tree be of a 

 bad kind, the fooner it is changed the bet- 

 ter, either by planting a better in its place, 

 or by grafting upon it the kind required : 

 but as I have direfted one of the branches 

 to be left whole, the other mull be cut to 

 fuch a length, that there may be four or 

 five plump buds left at its top ; all the 

 lower buds muft be rubbed off, and after- 

 wards let it be ordered according to its 

 ftrength as Fig. 4. in the two laft chap- 

 ters. 



If a tree has only one ftrong branch, and 

 no more of any fort, then it muft be cut 

 and ordered in every refpeft like that left 

 for a ftem in the laft ; let the fhoots b« 

 nailed to the wail in the fammer ; and if 

 there be three or m.ore of them, when they 

 are about a yard long, place two of them 

 as is before direfted, but that which is in- 

 tended for the fteiii let it be kept nailed 

 upright, till the feafon for winter-pruning, 

 and then let it be ordered by the rules given 

 for others of the fame fliape and flrength. 



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