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thod of difpofing of fap; but on a tree like 

 Fig. 6, there will be both bloffoms and 

 fruit near the ftem, as well as upon the 

 extreme parts* 



It may be faid, when a tree bloffoms and 

 bears fo early, it thereby becomes weaker ^ 

 but if it is ftrong enough to produce fhoots 

 of the length I have mentioned, before 

 they fliould be laid horizontally, the tree 

 Is then fufficiently ftrong, and when it does 

 not produce fuch fhoots, I do not fuffer it 

 to bear at all -, but when a tree would be 

 too vigorous without bearing, it is then of 

 fervice* 



I have feen trees bear foon after plant- 

 ing, without putting forth any fhoots, 

 v/hich was only owing to fhort cutting -, 

 for inftance, when a tree is taken from 

 the nurfery with branches of more than 

 a year old, then the lower parts of its 

 arms or branches have few or no buds 

 upon them for the produ6lion of fhoots, 

 but ftuds prepared for bloffoming the next 

 year, or in a few years after : now if this 

 tree has its branches cut to the length of 

 ten or twelve inches, according to cuftom, 

 thofe parts of the branches which remain 



are 



