FRUIT-TREES. 381 



v/ife the mulberry is much better to have 

 its branches near the ground, for then the 

 fruit is gathered with more eafe,^ and lefs 

 liable to be blown down by the winds. 



The mulberry fliould have horizontals 

 drawn from the ftem, in the fame manner 

 as the apple, and all dead wood and old 

 branches muft be taken out, and new ones 

 raifed where there is occafion ; but fuch 

 branches as are defigned to produce bearers 

 muft never be (hortened, for they bear their 

 fruit upon branches of the fame year's 

 growth, proceeding from three or four buds 

 near the extremities of the laft year's fhoots; 

 and jChould the ends of thefe fhoots, together 

 with the buds be taken off, they would 

 not produce any fruit, though they would 

 flioot very ftrongly from other buds. 



SECT. XL 



Of the Pruning of Standard-Cherries, 

 Plums, Almonds, Quinces, Medlars, and 

 Filberds. 



STandard-cherries fliould be treated in 

 a manner fomewhat different from ap- 

 ples, for they bear their fruit upon younger 

 2 wood, 



