MULBERRIES. 



year to year, giving advantage to the leading shoots, 

 cutting out close all redundant ones, and those likely to 

 injure one another. As this sort of fruit is always the 

 largest and best flavoured, where the trees are kept thin 

 of wood, their neglect will consequently diminish its 

 value, without enlarging its 



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By an accidental oversight, the asterisks denoting the sorts 

 called French Peaches have been omitted to be inserted m their 

 proper places. The sorts to which they should have beer > pre 

 fixed are Peaches 10. 11. 20. 22. 23. 25. 26. 27. 35. 36. 37. 38. 

 39. 40. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. ; and Nectarine 1. 



tu nun an men, and 

 nailing at length the horizontal shoots, observing to keep 

 the two sides of the tree equal. This may be easily ef- 

 fected, for if one branch should take the lead more con- 

 siderably than the others, its leader may be shortened in 

 the spring, and a new leader given to it in July. 



In the winter prunings it will be necessary to use the 

 knife freely, in order to keep down the strong spurs 

 which are annually enlarging and lengthening them- 

 selves ; for without a determination of reducing them, 

 they would, in a few years, extend a foot from the wall, 

 rendering the trees unsightly and unprofitable ; but by 

 thinning them out, and cutting them back from time to 

 time, they may readily be kept within due bounds, and 

 in a state offruitfulness. 



