FRUIT-TREES. i6i 



By (hort cutting firfl after planting, I 

 have feen trees killed 5 and others which 

 have made but very weak flioots, when 

 there were none but fmall buds left on; 

 for branches are often in fuch proportion 

 to each other, as the buds are which pro- 

 duce them ; but when fupplied with a grea- 

 ter quantity of fap, their bulk and length 

 are increafed the more. And when, by 

 fliort cutting, there happens to be any of 

 the larger fort of buds remaining ^ then 

 a tree fhoots very luxuriantly, as it appears 

 by the Fig. 3. whofe branches are much 

 too near each other. 



When new planted trees are cut the 

 firfl: time, it is proper to examine the up- 

 per ends of the ftems -, and if they be ei- 

 ther dead, or appear unhealthy, then cut 

 fuch tops off fomewhat below the diftem- 

 pered parts : if there are no fuch occafions, 

 there is no need of fnortening them 3 for, 

 on all peach-trees, there are a great num- 

 ber of collaterals, from which a reduction 

 of branches may be made, equivalent to 

 their lofs of roots by removal, admit they 

 were taken up, and planted as before di- 

 re6led. 



M Thofe 



