FRUIT-TREES. 155 



CHAP. LII. 



Explanation of the fourth plate. 



THIS plate reprefents either a peach, 

 neflarine, or apricot-tree, at diffe- 

 rent ages. 



Fig. I. is one taken from the nuifery. 



Fig. 2. is the fame cut, according to 

 cuftom. 



Fig. 3. is the fame as Fig. 2. with the 

 branches it may be fuppofed to have made 

 in one year. 



Fig. 4. is the fame as Fig. i. when cut 

 and nailed after my method. 



Fig. 5. is the fame as Fig. 4. after it has 

 been planted one year. On one fide of this 

 tree there are all the branches it was fuf- 

 fered to make ; on the other fide it is cut 

 and nailed for the winter order. 



Fig. 6. is a tree full grown. 



I have before explained what parts of a 

 tree are called bearers, horizontals, and 

 ftems, and need not repeat it : but in thefe 

 there are two parts that produce horizon- 

 tals J thefe I call ftems, though there was 



only 



