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cording to its strength. As the plants grow up, they 

 should be trained with single stems of eighteen inches 

 or two feet high, which will allow room to clear away 

 any suckers the plants may afterwards produce. When 

 the plants are finally planted out where they are intended 

 to remain, care must be taken, by annual pruning, to 

 form their heads handsomely ; keeping them thin and 

 open ; cutting away all irregular, superfluous, vigorous 

 shoots ; and removing any suckers which may spring up, 

 observing, at the same time, not to injure the roots. 



Pruning and Training. 



As soon, as the plant is established, some pains 

 should be taken to form its head, which may be done in 

 a similar manner to that recommended for Gooseberries 

 and Currants. 



If it is intended to keep the plant under a regular 

 system of pruning, it must be kept low, so that its 

 upper part may be reached by standing on the ground, 

 both for the purpose of pruning and of gathering the 

 fruit. 



The head must be kept thin, shortening the leading 

 shoots to nine or twelve inches, and cutting out such 

 other strong ones that would otherwise encumber the 

 head. Besides these, there will be also produced from 

 the two and three years' branches, annually, short twigs 

 of six or nine inches in length, which generally bear a 

 great many mits the following year ; these should be 

 thinned out, but not shortened, leaving them in tolerable 

 quantity wherever they are produced, cutting them clean 

 out the following winter, and leaving others in the same 

 manner as those had been left the previous season. 



In the county of Kent, Nuts are better managed than 

 in any other part of England, and their produce is not 



