FRUIT-TREES. 1,97 



but there fhould never be too many left 

 on. 



I have no other reafon for taking the 

 buds from the under fide, but to lefTen the 

 number of enfuing branches, for they 

 would all produce bearers, except two or 

 three neareft the ftem B. 



In the month of May, nail the branches 

 to the wall as upright as poffible, for they 

 will be lefs fubje6t to put out collaterals, 

 which rob the fruit, than when they are 

 nailed either horizontally or rechning. 



It is a common praftice to nip off the 

 tops of branches at the firft time of fum- 

 mer nailing 3 but this I think wrong, for 

 it has the very fame bad effeft as improper 

 nailing : but at the fame time, all fhoots 

 breaking out of the old wood muft be ta- 

 ken off, except thofe growing at fuch pla- 

 ces where they are wanted for new hori- 

 zontals the next year. 



The young branches muft be often nail'd 

 up in the fjmmer, to prevent the wind 

 from breaking them ; and when they are 

 grov/n fo high as to fliade the fruit on the 

 branches next above, or when they are in 

 biofibm, then nip off their tops at the fe- 

 I cond 



