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inches, for If they are cut at that length, 

 they will make autumnal flioots, by which 

 the fap will be difcharged without forcing 

 the extreme parts of the bearers into fhoots. 



But when a tree bears plentifully, and 

 flioots ftrongly, it requires a quite different 

 management in the fummer, for then all 

 the ufelefs branches, which proceed from 

 the horizontals, mufl be cut clofe off from 

 them ; by this method the fize and good- 

 nefs of the fruit will be improved. It is 

 cuftomary with fome to cut thefe branches 

 to about three or four inches in length, but 

 this kind of cutting occafions a greater 

 number of branches, which are fo near 

 each other, that much the greater part of 

 them never blofibm, for want of fun and 

 air, but they put forth fhoots which are 

 cut twice or thrice a year in the famic man- 

 ner, fo that they refemble beefoms rather 

 than the bearing parts of fruit-trees, and 

 what little fruit they produce is not good, 

 being generally fmall and cracked. 



As fome parts of the ftem are in an hori- 

 zontal pofition, being turned in that man- 

 ner, in order to procure new horizontals 

 from them, to furnifli the tree with young 



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