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pradice -, for if this work be performed early 

 in autumn, the wounds will heal over before 

 any hard froft ccmes en to injure the ihoots, 

 fo will be in no danger of injury therefrom ; 

 and by cutting off all the ufelefs branches at 

 this fcafon, and ihortening thofe which are left, 

 the trees will be the ftrcnger, and the blofTom 

 buds will be better nourifhed ; for when the 

 jQioots are left to their full length till fpring, 

 the buds upon the upper part of the branches 

 will be larger, and more turgid, than thofe up- 

 on the lower part : the fap flowing more plen- 

 tifully towards the ends of the fhoots, whereby 

 the buds below upon thofe parts of the (hoots, 

 which are defigned to be left for bearing, are 

 thereby rendered weaker : beiides by pruning at 

 this feafon, the borders may be dug and made 

 clean before winter ; whereby there will belefs 

 bufinefs to do in the fpring, w^hen the ground 

 is to be cropt ; fo that the fooner this work is 

 done, when the leaves begin to fall, the better. 



You may alfo prune Pears, Apples, and 

 Piums, Vv^hich work may be continued until the 

 latter end of the next month, according as the 

 feafon proves favourable 5 but this work fhould 

 never be performed in hard frofly weather, be- 

 caufe then the (hoots which are weak, are fubjed 

 to Dcrifh at thofe places where they are cut. 



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