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in fuiDmer, continue, and let fome of them, 

 1. e. the ftrongeft, grow above the wall, but 

 they mufi: be nailed near the top with ib'ong 

 flireads, left the winds tear down the whole 

 tree. The cutting of fuch trees fiiould 

 be deferred to the latter end of March. 



By thefe means a vigorous tree will bear, 

 and then thofe branches that were left for 

 wafte pipes upon the ftem, or other parts, 

 may be taken out, for the fap that fup- 

 ported them will be v/anted in the fruit. 



When a tree is come to a ft^te of bear- 

 ing, it is not proper to let too much wood 

 remain in the winter : all thofe parts of 

 the bearers that produced fruit the laft year 

 ftiould be taken out, and none left but 

 fuch as v/ill immediately bloffom, or fuch 

 ftuds as are too young ; and if there be 

 room, let new horizontals be laid, for thofe 

 that are young will afford mqch the largeft 

 and beft flavoured fruit. 



It is not the great age of a tree which 

 renders the fruit bad, but the age of thofe 

 parts of it on which the fruit grows , nei- 

 ther when fruit is not good, is it always 

 owing to the feafon, cljmate or foil, or its 

 pvvn natural bad qualities, for I have km 

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