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Sometimes it happens that many of the 

 fiioots which bore in the fummer are weak, 

 at the time of winter-pruning, and perhaps 

 but one ftrong one at the end of a horizon-^ 

 tal 3 when that is the cafe, I turn it quite 

 back to the ftem, or as near as it will reach, 

 as that near B is fiippofed to be turned be- 

 low the horizontal to A; and then the two 

 middle branches fliould be cut off clofe, but 

 that next the ftcm fnould be cut like that 

 at G, witl] one bud on, to make a flioot for 

 a new horizontal the next year. 



Though the branch from B to A is laid 

 below tlie old horizontal, yet it is not al- 

 ways required to be fo, for it would grow 

 as well had it been above, but I always 

 contrive to lay the new horizontals at about 

 half a yard from each other, and if they be 

 clofe to an old one, it is not the w:orfe, 

 When there is not a branch of any fort 

 near the ftem, then as near to it as poflible j 

 I have t>vifted the old horizontal quite 

 roundj before the branch was turn'd frorn 

 B to Aj and this method generally had thq 

 defiled efitft, 



I am apprehenfive many pra6litioners 

 will be much agalnft laying in a branch four 

 feet long of pne year's growth j imagining 



' ' that 



