FRUIT-TREES. ip 



bearers, they will be apt to put forth flioots 

 every year 3 therefore when a tree has a 

 good crop of fruit upon it, and ihoots pro- 

 per for new horizontals, then part of the 

 old ftuds that are near the ftem, and barren, 

 ought to be cut out, after they have once 

 born, in order to make the fruit larg r, i^or 

 old ftuds that have born feveral times never 

 yield fo good fruit as thofe that are young | 

 fo in this cafe, it is proper to take out the 

 old ones that the fruit may be the better 

 fed. 



Let all branches which proceed from 

 that fide of the ftem next the wall be taken 

 off, for they are too v^atery, and were they 

 to be laid horizontally, their collaterals 

 would be very far for bloffoming. 



Let no other young ftioots be left upon It 

 than fuch as are defigned for horizontals 

 when wanted, which ought to be kept nail- 

 ed upright to the wall, at feveral times ia 

 the fummer, left they be broken by winds i 

 let all others be rubb'd off as they put forth, 

 efpecially thofe that break out on the fore- 

 part of the ftem, and if fuckers put out at 

 the roots, let them be dug up. 



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