i68 A TREATISE OF 



freely, whereby the bloffoms and fruit will 

 be the better fupplied with juices. 



Bearers of the fame lengths before- men- 

 tioned, furnifhed with triple buds, having 

 a bloffom' bud on each fide, will, in the 

 middle, produce leaves to fhelter the blof- 

 foms adjoining. 



The old Newington, and fome others, 

 may have bearers left eighteen inches long, 

 and the horizontals muft be laid at diftances 

 accordingly 3 but where the horizontals are 

 not far enough apart, the bearers may be 

 laid fo much leaning as the fpaces require, 

 or if there are too few in number, nail 

 fome long ones up curving Hke the ftems. 

 The firft branches that I choofe to take 

 off from the fide A C, are H and Y, which 

 were left for bearers when the tree v/as 

 planted, and in Fig. 4. are marked G and 

 H. The next that are to be examined are 

 thofe at L and M, or any others that may 

 chance to be ne?a' thefe places; for there 

 ought not to be any branches left in them, 

 but what are of a proper fize for bearers ; 

 ftrong flioots on the bottom parts of young 

 trees fo early after planting being very im- 

 proper 5 for they are apt to rob thofe above 



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