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nor the buds at the lower end of a branch 

 produce fhoots that will bear, it is, there- 

 fore, intirely wrong to fhorten the colla- 

 teral branches j and fhould the horizon- 

 tals be nearer together than the fpace be- 

 fore direfted, the bearing branches would 

 too much jQiade one another. 



When the bearers are come to the length 

 of half a yard, they muft be fliortened -, 

 and, as many fmall branches will put out 

 from them, fome of thofe neareft the ho- 

 rizontals may be left on; and, likewife, 

 young fhoots growing from the ftem fliould 

 be encouraged and trained up for new ho- 

 rizontals, in the fame manner as dire6led 

 for pears. 



Filberds and large nuts muft be ordered 

 the fame way as mvilberries, with this dif- 

 ference only, that they don't require above 

 half the room. 



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