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Plate; but when a tree happens to have 

 too few, then fome muft be fhortened, in 

 order to mcreafe their number; if there 

 are many bloffom-buds upon the horizon- 

 tals, take part of them away, and like- 

 wife all that proceeds from the item. 



Fig. I. repi^efents a tree, whofe head is 

 fuppofed to be only one year old, with all 

 the branches fhortned, but none taken out, 

 which is the cuftomary way of pruning at 

 the time of planting, and which caufes 

 trees, when they are old, to have too many 

 ftrong parts, and to be full of old wood. 

 Fig. 11. reprefents a tree with branches 

 tv/o or three years old, and cut according 

 to the common method, with all the 

 branches fhortened more than the length 

 of the laft year's fhoots, and no other buds 

 left on them but fuch as are either pre- 

 pared, or preparing to bloflbm. 



But this method caufes many new plant- 

 ed trees to be three or four years before 

 they make any fhoots. Fig. III. reprefents 

 a tree with five branches, either one, two, 

 or three years old, and cut after the me- 

 thod I practife, upon the head of a tree, 



whofe 



