FRUIT-TREES. xij 



are more than a year old, having no buds 

 naturally prepared for the production of 

 Ihoots, but buds only which bloflbm and 

 bear one or other of them, for two or 

 three years, without making any cOnfide- 

 rable flioots, which is often the cafe in 

 ftandards; then a tree is faidto be weak. 



Sometimes a tree planted with fhoots on 

 it of one year old, which have buds that 

 feem likely to produce fhoots, may never- 

 thelefs produce but weakly ones the firfl: 

 year; and if too many of them be left 

 on, and cut fhort without difbudding, the 

 tree will remain in a weak ftate, tho' in a 

 few years it will yield fruit, but not fo 

 good as others whofe fhoots are of the 

 length I have directed, before they fhould 

 be nailed horizontally in order to put forth 

 bearers. 



If an early bearing tree be cut as I have 

 direfted, it may produce both fruit and 

 proper branches, admit part of the laft year's 

 fhoots be left at full length, and part of 

 the buds on the others difplaced ; for then 

 the remaining buds will form fhoots, and 

 if part of the fluds or bearers be taken off. 



the fhoots will be the flronger. 



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