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above the eye flanting > this will keep them from over-hafty 

 mounting, reduce them into fiapc^ and accelerate their bearing. 



To this we add again out of M^ Seals Hereford-Jfjire Orchards, 

 pag. 23. In a graffed plant every Bough jhould be loafed at the very 

 tops, in Apples and Pears, not in Cherries and Plums. 



In a natural Plant the Boughs Jljould not at all be lopped, hut 

 fome taken off clofe to the Trunk, that the Root at firji Tranfplan- 

 tation be not engag'd to maintain too many Suckers. And this muji 

 be done vpithfnch difiretion, that the Top-branches be not too clofe 

 together-^ for the natural Plant is apt to grovp fpiry, and thereby 

 fails offiuitfulnefi. Therefore let the referved Branches be divided 

 at a convenient roundnefs. 



TAe Branches that are cutoff may befet^ and tpHI grow, though 

 flotply. 



If the Top prove fpiry, or the fiuit unkind, then the due remedy 

 mufi be in re-graffing. See Chap, xxviij. in Sylva. 



Befides the Perrys, dri'd and preferv'd Fruit, nfeful k the Pear- 



Tree (and befi the moji barren) for its excellent colour d Timber, 



(feldom or never worm-eaten) ejpecially for Stools, Tables, Chairs, 



Cabinets, and very many works of the Joyner and Sculptor .• And 



fi if likevfije both the Black-cherry and the Plum-Trec. 



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