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 ;ire defigned to remain clofe to the wall or 

 efpalier, in their due pofition ; whereby the 

 fruit will have the advantage of fun and air 

 to ripen them, and give them their proper 

 flavour. If this be rightly executed, there 

 will be no occafion to diveft the branches of 

 their leaves, as is by fome unfkilful perfons 

 pradifed, to the great prejudice both of their 

 fruit and trees : nor can I here forbear repeat- 

 ing, what I have elfewhere often taken i otice 

 of, i>iz, not to fuffer fruit trees to remain ne- 

 gledled till this feafon (as is too often pradifed) 

 and then to fummer-prune them (as it is com- 

 monly called), in the doing of which, the 

 gardeners cut off all the luxuriant branches, 

 and ihorten thofe defigned to remain, and then 

 nail them clofe to the wall, fo that from being 

 (before this dreffing) in a very rude diforderly 

 way, they are reduced into an exad: order at 

 once; but hereby the fruit, which was greatly 

 fhaded by the luxuriant growth of the branches, 

 is fuddenly expofed to the fun and air, which 

 hardens their outward fkins, an-d retards their 

 growth ; whereas, if their (hoots had been 

 conftantly trained to the wall or efpalier, as 

 they were produced, the fruit would have con- 

 tinually been under an equal coverture of leaves, 

 and fo confequently Icfs liable to , fuffer from 



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