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The way of planting apples in efpaliei s, 

 and the manner of ordering them are the 

 fame as for pears upon quince-flocks. 



CHAP. LXXVIII. 



Of Mulberries and Filberts, and how to 

 prune them in Efpaliers. 



THE mulberry produces much better 

 fruit when planted in efpaliers, than 

 from tall ftandard-trees, and not liable to 

 be fhaken off by the winds. 



They fliould be planted at the fame dif- 

 tance from one another as prefcribed for 

 pears upon quince-flocks, but pruned in 

 a different manner. 



For, in the firfl place, they fhould be 

 trained up with one ilem, leaving hori- 

 zontals upon it half a yard afunder ; be- 

 caufe the branches proceeding from a flrong 

 fhoot or horizontal, will not bear the firfl 

 year > for the fruit is mofl commonly pro- 

 duced from fhoots proceeding from buds 

 near the ends of thofe branches, which 

 grow from horizontals the year before ; 

 and, as neither the buds of flrong branches, 



nor 



