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Or if, at the time of winter-pruning, 

 there be too great a quantity of wood left 

 in the trees, or wounded parts, by bruife 

 or cut, then weak flioots are produced, 

 which often become bhghted in the fum- 

 nier, though pruning will remedy thefe 

 diforders. 



If the borders be impoveriflied by having 

 either too much kitchen-ftuff or flovv^ers 

 growing upon them, the trees will be too 

 weak ; and if the weather be dry, they muft 

 be watered plentifully three times a week, 

 with one ounce of fait added to each gal- 

 lon of water, or with the fame mixture 

 prefcribed for vines, according to the di- 

 reftions given for managing old borders, 

 and trencht as foon as pofiible. 



If the file be flrong, double the quan- 

 tity of fait before direfted, and water the 

 bottom of every tree before the foot or 

 lime is laid on at the time of trenching. 



But if there is not an opportunity of 

 trenching, neverthelefs water thus mixed 

 muft ahvays be ufed for the above purpofe, 

 and the borders dup over with a three- 

 tined fork, that the moiiture may the ear- 

 lier reach the roots of the trees. 



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