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then great part of the ftuds ought to be 

 cut oif in the winter. 



When a tree does not want vigour, let 

 all the branches continue till winter, then 

 cut off all thofe above fix inches long, 

 growing upright from the upper-fides of 

 the horizontals ; and this fhould be ob- 

 ferved in trees of all ages, for no upright 

 branches from thofe parts fliould be fuffer- 

 ed to grow longer. 



The branches of fome kinds of apple- 

 trees are fabjeft to grow too much declin- 

 ing i but when this is the cafe, they muft 

 be fuftained in a right pofition by proper 

 fupporters, as was direfted for thofe 

 branches that were too much upright ^ and 

 a!] branches defigned for horizontals, be 

 they either feconds, thirds or fourths, as 

 A BCD, in Fig. 7. they muffc all be fo 

 confined after they are two feet long, and 

 whenever the extreme part of a horizon- 

 tal becomes weak, the ftrongeft fhoot near 

 it mufi: be preferved for its place. 



If in any kind of ti'ce, after the bran- 

 ches are laid horizontally, they don't grow 

 much in length, hut put out ftrongly 

 near the ftem in an upright pofition, then 



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