372 A TREATISE OF 



height intended, which fliould not be more 

 than fixteen feet from the ground 3 for, 

 all kinds of apple-trees planted at the dif- 

 tance of forty feet from each other, have 

 fuScient room to extend themfelves hori- 

 zontally. 



There is one thing more requifite to be 

 "obferved in raifing the ftem. y and that is, 

 if it flioots more in one year than the 

 fpace required betwixt each fet of hori- 

 zontals, it m.uft be cut in the winter at a 

 proper length, and the lewder buds rubb'd 

 off, leaving only five at the top, fuch as are 

 likely to make fhoots. 



But when it is grown to the height intend- 

 ed, there mull be only four buds left on, and 

 the flicots proceeding from them kept 

 in a horizontal portion, which may be 

 done by confining them to tv/o fmall poles 

 fixed tranfverfely to tlie upright one; and 

 when thofe branches defigned for horizon- 

 tals grow toe much upwards, they may be 

 confined to a right pofition by the fame 

 method, provided that often bending them 

 downward in the fumnier will not be fuf- 

 licienf. 



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