FRUIT-TREE S. 221 



CHAP. LXXVI. 



How Pears planted in Efpaliers are to be 

 pruned. 



I Have before given directions for im- 

 proving of old pear-trees, &c. againft 

 a wall, which I hope will inform any one 

 how old efpaliers and dwarfs are to be or- 

 dered, fo fhall only fpeak of young ones. 



Pears upon quince-flocks are the beft 

 for efpaliers, but they fliould be pruned in 

 a manner fomewhat different from wall- 

 trees, becaufe they are planted at different 

 diflances, for they mufl be trained up with 

 two ftems like a peach ; but the horizon- 

 tals fhould not be diftant from each other 

 above three fourths of the fpace allowed 

 for wall-trees ; all other ways of manage- 

 ment are the fame for both. 



But one thing more is requifite to be 

 obferved in regard to the horizontals of 

 fuch trees as grow vigoroufly -, and that is, 

 if they fboot to a greater length before 

 they bear than half the diflances between 

 their flems, then they mufl be reduced to 

 3 ' one 



