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on the part AC; for the former has more 

 than on-e half of its collaterals taken off, 

 about an inch from the horizontals. 



My reafon for not cutting thefe collate- 

 rals clofe to the part they proceed from, is 

 to procure a greater number of bearers the 

 next year, there generally being on the 

 lower end one bud, and fometimes more, 

 which produce ihoots after cutting. 



At this time of drefiing, I think it is 

 better to leave the bearers about fix inches 

 afunder, nailed in an upright pofition, 

 with long and narrow flireads, for broad 

 ones are apt to fpoil the beauty of the 

 fruit, and fnort ones to pinch the branches. 

 The upper ends of branches are the 

 moft certain to produce fruit, and fhould 

 therefore never be taken off if aHve ; for, 

 the upper bud of every healthy branch al- 

 ways puts out leaves, which flielters thofe 

 bloffoms neareft them. 



When fome of the bearers are dead at 

 the ends, occafioned by blights, there may 

 be a neceffity of fliortning them, and in 

 fuch a manner, that there fliall be at their 

 upper ends fuch buds as will make wood; 

 but after the trees have been ordered two 



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