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General Rules for Pruning and Dreffing- 

 Apple-Trees, of all Ages, that have beer^ 

 regularly trained. 



AL L dead branches or ftud3 muft be 

 cut off clofe to the part they pro- 

 ceed from, and the parts cut fliould be 

 made very fmooth, that the wound may 

 focner heal, and where large branches are 

 taken off with a faw, the parts thus cut 

 fliould be pared with a fiiarp chiffel in fuch 

 a manner as that the wet may defcend from 

 them; for when they are left either hori- 

 zontally, or with an uneven furface, the 

 wet will continue upon them, till it pene- 

 trfiifes into the w^ood and decays the v^^hole 

 tree. 



The branches fhould not be fuffered to 

 crofs one another, nor touch at their ex- 

 tremities. 



The mofs ihpuid be clean fcraped off in 

 the winter, and w^here there is any can- 

 leered rind, it muft be cut away to the 

 quick, and all old bark fhould be clean 



pared 



