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nailed to the wall, to forward the ripening 

 of the fruit. When thefe three forts of 

 cherries are planted againft low walls, fo 

 as that their diftance from one another is 

 more than ten feet, each tree fliould then 

 have two flcms. 



All other kinds of cherries that I am ac- 

 quainted with bear differently, for they 

 produce the moft fruit upon ftuds proceed- 

 ing from wood that is two or three years 

 old, or at the lower ends of the laft year's 

 fhoots ; though they are often fuffered to 

 have ftuds much older, which will bloffom 

 and bear, yet the fruit is never fo large 

 as the other. The rules laid down for 

 pruning and naiUng pears upon quince 

 flocks, will ferve alfo for thefe forts of 

 cherries ; with this difference only, that 

 the horizontals of thefe muft be laid at 

 diftances from one another, according to 

 the fize of their leaves, which will be ken 

 before new horizontals are fit to nail ; the 

 diftance from one another may be allow- 

 ed from eight to twelve inches. In nailing 

 thefe or any other kinds of ftone fruit, take 

 care that tlie rind be neither galled nor 



bruifed 



